Word: rage
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dutiful husband named Xan Meo. For Xan, 47, a Londoner, "marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." But after a mysterious stranger cracks Xan's skull in a bar fight, he changes. He becomes primitive, abusive, constantly battling volcanic surges of rage and horniness. The new Xan is a man who "seldom saw a woman of any age whose bathwater he would have declined to drink." His life becomes a struggle to hang on to the norms of civilized behavior. Wrestling with shadows, Xan reels and staggers through some paralyzingly funny satirical subplots...
...stranglehold on Palestinian towns to curtail attacks by Palestinian radicals. Yaalon told columnists from three newspapers that the Israeli government's "tactical decisions" were at odds with its "strategic interests." Military officials say Yaalon fears current policies will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territories, fuel popular rage and so provoke more attacks on his soldiers. Yaalon blames Sharon's hard-line policies for also contributing to the downfall of Mahmoud Abbas, who became the Palestinian Prime Minister in April, offering hope for the peace talks, but who resigned four months later. Sharon, an unapologetic and often uncompromising hawk...
...back of the album booklet reads “Listen once daily—results may vary. May cause emotional reaction” in all caps. But being a near-clone of their past works, the only reaction you’ll experience from Results May Vary is the rage Fred shows on the cover, a rage only appeased when the CD player is switched...
...someone says in 21 Grams. "He came to help us bear the pain.") In both movies, a violent family loss forces Penn's character to decide which route to take--revenge or redemption. This subject plays to Penn's strength--dramatizing, incarnating and eloquently commenting on a soul in rage...
...Vivien Leigh, as the Southern belle with patrician airs, lays eyes on Marlon Brando as sweaty, sexy, brutal Stanley Kowalski. That's the crucial moment when films gave up a love of the American aristocracy for a fascination with the roiling underclass, and when actors were given license to rage and mumble--to express the inchoate feelings of souls caged or adrift, doomed by society or destiny...