Word: furiousness
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...crowd of 250" is the most angry I've seen since at City Hall since rent control was first mentioned 11 years ago." William J. Walsh, an attorney for city developers and an advocate of unlimited condo conversion, said yesterday. "The people are furious; you can't take the rights of home ownership away from tenants," he added...
...decaying Aqueduct as if it were Epsom Downs), the feeling starts hitting you even harder. One wonders--why is it there? Clearly people do not watch "Dallas" to muse over the fact our interrelationships are destabilized and smooth. On the other hand, it seems a strange intellectual game--a furious overcompensation--for one to watch a soap opera and then be able to find intelligent reasons for the act later in the week on the pages of our slick arbiter of taste. Either way, it jars. Somehow it smacks of elevating the form without changing the content. Who knows? Maybe...
Rafelson, however, refuses to let these betrayals unwind in their own frenetic fashion. Scenes of furious violence are undercut by his reluctance to leave the action before every angle has been explored. The result is a collection of brilliant scenes which don't seem to be related in time. Playwright David Mamet has taken most of the xenophobia and complication out of Cain's novel, and left in their places huge gaps for Rafelson to muse over. But one suspects Rafelson didn't even notice...
...week later, while the White House quietly debated the structure of its crisis-management system, Haig--afraid of losing status--spilled the beans, telling a congressional committee of his "lack of enthusiasm" about the possibility that Vice President Bush might receive the post instead of him. Furious about Haig's fierce infighting and evident lack of allegiance, Reagan appointed Bush hours later--prompting Haig to draft a letter of resignation that he later opted not to deliver...
...been proved to exist in abundance. But in the past two years, new geological studies have indicated that the overthrust formations may actually extend at least 100 miles farther east than previously believed. That would more than double the size of the belt, and energy companies have entered a furious bidding war to snatch up new exploration concessions. Standard of Indiana alone holds 7 million acres of Appalachian land...