Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beats before co-anchoring the evening news from 1968 to 1970, returning to that chair again in 1978. Widely respected by colleagues for his honesty, fairness and rectitude, he often brought an emotional edge to his work: showing pain at the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and sudden rage when he received conflicting reports on the condition of Press Secretary James Brady after the 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan, exclaiming on the air, "Let's get it nailed down, somebody!" For many years the ratings of World News Tonight did not match those of its network rivals...
...some Japanese health professionals is that the system does not allow people many ways to release their anger. Men are allowed a few surly comments under the cover of drunkenness, and women sometimes take to their beds to show displeasure, but most of the time people just swallow their rage...
From this foundation, the novel moves to examine more fully the entire realm of female experience, from marriage to childbirth and death, from contentment to rage and guilt. The struggles, however, are not those of the girls, but of their grandmother. The girls reveal her hardships, from poverty and disastrous marriage to the sudden wealth which allowed her to buy the farm. Lil Krauss's five daughters, May, Elinor, Libby, Grace and Rachel, also come alive through the narrators; the startling distinctions amongst them, the subtle tensions, and their relationships with their husbands are brought to light under the granddaughters...
...military government could be persuaded to loosen its grip. If John Paul's visit produced no concrete results, they argued, it could leave Poles in a deeper state of gloom than when he arrived. Ever present was the danger that the trip would release so much frustration and rage that neither the state nor the church would be able to contain it. Still, John Paul has gambled for high stakes before...
Peron in London, is a powerful singer if not a sexual dynamo in Marilyn, a ludicrous, lugubrious bio-opera about Marilyn Monroe. (Doomed movie stars are now the musical rage: a different Monroe show is coming to Broadway next season, and the National Theater is mounting a musical by Marvin Hamlisch based on the life and death of Jean Seberg.) Ben Kingsley, the R.S.C. stalwart who won an Oscar playing Gandhi, has brought his one-man show on 19th century Actor Edmund Kean to the West End. Griff Rhys Jones, who mugged his way to TV celebrity...