Word: ire
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...Governors' ire was directed at an unwelcome Christmas gift from the Federal Government. After a two-year study, the three states were selected last week by the Department of Energy as the most promising places in which to bury 40,000 tons of high-level radioactive wastes beginning in 1998. They were the unhappy winners in a competition involving nine possible sites. Most of the nuclear rubbish is in the form of 12-ft.-long spent fuel rods that have been stored for nearly 30 years at the 85 power plants scattered across the U.S. The water pools used...
...Bounty, which its producer either could not or would not finance in its full power and glory. Since his current producers, John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin, had almost as much trouble rounding up the money for Passage, Lean's cold contempt for movie magnates might even exceed his ire at critics...
...smiling brute on the order of Nikita Khrushchev. At a banquet the author catches the official acting like a Balkan Queen of Hearts, shouting the Bulgarian equivalent of "Off with his head!" when a writer who has offended him is mentioned. Little wonder that when Markov ultimately aroused his ire, Zhivkov once again called for an execution by less Carrollian means. The Truth That Killed is Markov's valediction; it is also his revenge...
...assignment, which needs formal Greek approval, may be considerably more important to the Kremlin. Although Greece is a NATO member, the government of Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has opposed the alliance's deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Greece recently provoked Washington's ire by describing the U.S. as "the expansionist metropolis of imperialism." Papandreou has also asserted that the Soviet Union is incapable of imperialism because of the nature of its economic system. By nominating Andropov, Moscow may be signaling its solicitude both for Greece and for one of its own most illustrious...
...last week; this week it plays San Antonio before rounding out the month with stints in New Orleans and New York City. Director Jonathan Miller's startling reinterpretation of Verdi's first masterpiece was the talk of London at its premiere in 1982, but it aroused the ire of some Italian Americans after the tour was announced; they objected to the implied Mafia motif. Yet this Rigoletto no more defames Italians than, say, Un Ballo in Maschera does Bostonians. Rather, it recasts the familiar work in a light that forces audiences to rethink it and savor it anew...