Word: rage
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...year in cities hardly known for their flash, such as Tucson, Ariz., and Topeka, Kans. Many buyers are waving bids around without even inspecting the property. And money is flooding into McMansions and vacation homes, reminiscent of the cash that rushed into technology-stock funds that were all the rage a few years back. So the bubble police are on full alert, sensing another NASDAQ-like flameout...
...scorn which enveloped me when I heated up a can of Progresso soup (because I was hungry and didn’t have any traditional breakfast foods at hand) and ate it at 10 in the morning. There was general chaos. Faces contorted into fear, confusion and finally rage. People were coming from far-away parts of the office to look. They would say things like “Good GOD! Soup? How can you—but it’s only—what is WRONG—have some DECENCY!” I have been hearing...
...Palestinian officials have also been discussing ways of easing the humanitarian suffering that results from Israel's closure of the West Bank's cities. But even such meager progress on the diplomatic front will likely be frozen now as the region braces for a new wave of Palestinian rage. And moderates looking to revive peace efforts and demilitarize Palestinian politics are likely to find themselves drowned out by the hard men in the battle for Palestinian public opinion...
...That won't help the Bush administration shore up support for its main concern, going after Saddam Hussein. Images televised around the Arab world of Palestinian children killed by an Israeli missile are likely to spark new rage on the streets of Arab world that will be directed against both Israel and the U.S., at a time when Bush is trying to get all Arab allies on board for an invasion of Iraq. When Vice President Cheney courted Arab support last April, he found U.S. allies in the region uniformly warning that they could not be seen backing Washington...
...mumbler; he spat his lines with acid precision. He often played tyrants--Napoleon, Al Capone, Mussolini (twice)--but his presence was grander: he suggested the Old Testament God, annoyed at the world's slow wit. Even as The Pawnbroker's death-camp survivor, he went for earned rage, not martyrdom. Steiger won a Best Actor Oscar for In the Heat of the Night, which showed a warming trend. But his legacy is one of fire within ice. In any scene he entered, he lowered the temperature and raised the stakes. --By Richard Corliss