Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...logical steps up the scale of frustration from startled hurt to an outrage that is almost lethally self-destructive. By the end he has kidnaped Georgie and precipitated an armed confrontation with the riot squad. Unlike the male anger that brought Shoot the Moon to its dissatisfying conclusion, this rage is explicated. We have watched it grow out of the relationship's contentious core, and we know whom to blame for its explosion, a wife who has tried to score one point too many. We also know whom we are rooting for, namely a man who has been driven...
...victim, Salah Alyamani, had already been buried in a tiny, fenced-off cemetery underneath the eastern wall of the Old City that is devoted to the Muslim victims of the 1936 Arab uprising against the British and of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. But the Palestinians were exploiting the rage over Badr's death to encourage resistance to Israeli rule...
...walk), and resigned to being housebound. Motivation? To be in proper shape for the marriage market, essentially a family affair, not a girl's choice. Indeed a bride was ideally supposed to be bloodily deflowered on her marriage bed by a bride groom she had never seen before. Rage today may be an easier experience...
...here they sit, just past college age, at the crossroads between Now and Nowhere, waiting for answers to their two big questions: Marriage or not? And then what? Shrevie (Daniel Stern) is already married, to a girl who tries desperately to comprehend his passion for music and his rage for order-"How could you file my James Brown record under J?" Eddie (Steve Guttenberg) is ready to get married, with few qualms and one small condition: that his fiancee pass the world's toughest football quiz. Boogie (Mickey Rourke) will never be married: he has too much fun playing...
...doctors who misdiagnosed her pregnancy, or argue with a sister, or even question the motives of her loving husband (Joseph Campanella, strong, caring and comfortable in the role). Then those translucent eyes can light with pain and determination. The mouth can fix in its querulous schoolgirl smile. The rage can break - and Redgrave come alive. It may not be Jean Brodie, but it is surely prime- By Richard Corliss