Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film's climax occurs when a member of the staff calls a meeting of the children to announce that a beloved cook has unexpectedly died. Some are stunned into silence, others burst out in self-destructive rage; two gins rend the air with mourning wails that continue into the night. The catharsis of tears signifies that the children, unable to separate reality and fantasy, now feel guilty for the death, as if they had willed it. In the film's most subtle and affecting sequence, Warrendale focuses on the grieving faces of children at the cook...
...Frederick Wiseman and John Marshall, who had the cooperation of the institute's authorities, the life of the patients seems like an echo of Marat/Sade, an existence bereft of dignity or honor. Old men are paraded naked to their cells and taunted by guards who make them rage impotently until the patients beat the walls of the cages they can never leave. A psychiatrist orders a man to be force fed, then smokes a cigarette, dangling the ashes inches away from the funnel that is emptying food into the victim's stomach. A boy who claims that...
What went wrong for the little girl whose earlier "cloudless years were a fairy tale"? Svetlana has two explanations. One is the death of her mother, for which Stalin in rage and grief punished everyone she knew. Yet Svetlana concedes that Nadya could not have lived with Stalin through the years of terror that followed 1932. Svetlana's other explanation is still more doubtful. She finds a devil. His name is Lavrenty Beria, Stalin's last and most infamous secret policeman. "A good deal that this monster did is now a blot on my father's name...
...Louis. He took a reporting job with the German-language Westliche Post and made it his business to expose graft wherever he could find it. At 22 he was elected to the state house of representatives-although his political career was damaged when in a burst of rage he shot a local politician in the leg. Pulitzer paid his $100 fine and went back to journalism. At 31, he bought the bankrupt St. Louis Dispatch, merged it three days later with the smaller Post. He shocked St. Louis by lambasting its leading families for undervaluing property in order to avoid...
...long way from "I want to hold your hand" to "I'd love to turn you on." In between, the Beatles kept their cool, even when they were decorated by the Queen. They managed to retain the antic charm that had helped make them the rage of Britain and that sparkled on millions of TV screens in February 1964, when America got its first glimpse of them live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Only once did they show a serious lapse in taste: the cover of their 1966 album Yesterday and Today was a photograph of the four wearing...