Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...astonishing revolution now sweeping through Maryland and on to the Illinois bottomlands and the high hills of Oregon where corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton are grown. The upheaval in the long, quiet reaches of U.S. farmland has gone largely unnoticed in the din of presidential politics, the cries of rage from the torn inner cities, and the turmoil abroad. But it may mean as much to this country as all the other changes taking place around the world -- or even more...
...desperation (and on Batman Returns got story help from Sam Hamm and dialogue "normalizing" from Wesley Strick). "We didn't want to make her a macho woman," he says, "or a sultry, coquettish uber-vixen curling on a penthouse couch. We wanted her tied deep into female psychology. Female rage is interesting: we made her a mythic woman you can sympathize with. Catwoman isn't a villain, and she isn't Wonder Woman fighting for the greater good of society. That has no meaning for a lonely, lowly, harassed secretary toiling away in the depths of Gotham City...
...During most of the two months since its opening at Marne-la-Vallee outside Paris, the entertainment complex has been dogged by downbeat news. Euro Disneyland has drawn about 1.5 million visitors, a number that barely matches early projections. The stock of the Euro Disney holding company, once the rage of the Paris Bourse, has posted a 20% decline since opening day. In a letter to shareholders two weeks ago, company chairman Robert Fitzpatrick confessed that there could be "no assurance" of profitability by Oct. 1, when the French fiscal year ends. Last week's attendance crush...
Inexplicable scenes like this make it impossible to view the L.A. riots solely as an outburst of self-destructive black rage. By one preliminary estimate, more than half the people arrested in the riot were Hispanic and 10% were white. Memories of how long it took inner-city areas to recover from the destruction of the Watts riots are still fresh in the minds of many Los Angeles blacks, who despaired at a repetition of the violence...
...police were unprepared to quell the ghetto's rage...