Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race, and although he is gaining fast, at the end he is still 2.5 sec. behind Winner Doug Bethke's Corvette. Newman jokes with Bethke on the victory stand, puts his arm around Joanne, smiles for the photographers, and then goes back to the trailer to rage. Later, very seriously, he apologizes for losing. He does not really cheer up until the awards dinner that night, when, looking as impish as Butch Cassidy, he succeeds in smuggling a camera bag full...
...transported to Auschwitz. One morning, Pisar's number was called and he and his group were placed in a halfway barrack to have their numbers checked off as they waited their turn: "We stand closely packed in a dread silence." Pisar writes, "the faces around me flushed with the rage of helplessness, or some crazed hope of last-minute deliverance, or the hallucinatory peace of the imminence of death. At the back of the room, in a space clear of prisoners. I see a barrel of water, and alongside it a pail, brush...
...other company has gained more from the rage for Mexican dining than Louisville-based Chi-Chi's (fiscal 1982 sales: $35.8 million), the growth champion of Latin chains. The five-year-old firm opened its first unit in a converted A & P supermarket in Minneapolis, and now has 73 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada. The red-hot expansion pushed Chi Chi's profits to $4.5 million in its latest fiscal year, nearly double the level of the previous year...
...Here Lies Lyndon"--follows Feiffer's crowd through an America disillusioned and betrayed. Feiffer's wit perhaps peaks here, mirroring his personal fury at Johnson--the dealer who made significant progress in civil rights and poverty eradication programs, then let Americans down by escalating the Vietnam War. "Mine is rage of a lover betrayed," Feiffer writes in retrospect. "I don't often trust in public figures; Johnson seduced me." The division and incomprehension among liberals comes through clearly in the section...
...moves away from Mary's bitterness and rebellion, back to passive indifference which mirrors the world's. No longer famous or even notorious, McLane, like the historical character on whom she is based, dies in obscurity Orange lighting bathes the set there are no more choked back tears of rage or regret, but a dull feeling of acceptance at the death of a genius...