Word: ragingly
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Other cultural norms are turned on their heads under the category of "Superheroes," where visitors discover that, although the spandex-wearing ubermensches (and uberfraus) may be all the rage in the United States, in Europe they are used mostly for satirical purposes. Only in England does the serious superhero thrive, in incarnations like "Judge Dredd," found in the pages of adult comic weeklies like 2000 A.D. or Warriors. French and Belgian takes on the superhero yield either goofy results, like "Superdupont" by Gotlib and Jacques Lob, or satiric ones, as in the Italian "Ranxerox," a buffed-up, tank-top wearing...
...duel with the furious Don Jose. The fight is broken up by Carmen, who declares that she now loves Escamillo. After returning from seeing his mother, Don Jose begs Carmen to come back to him. She spurns him, and he stabs her to death in a mad rage...
DIED. CHERYL WILSON-MINELLI, 30, former champion of TV's brutish American Gladiators; after her husband Juan Ernesto Minelli, 34, a former pro boxer, allegedly stabbed and bludgeoned her in a jealous rage; in Oakland Park, Florida. Minelli turned himself in and was arrested for homicide...
...lopsided dynamics of Who's Got Who are a teetery transition into the final act, when the two characters make their fiercest lunges for each other's throats. The Loeb production had its strongest moments here, as both actors uncovered a layer of rage they had not yet tapped. Their physical movements, formerly cagey and dry, were freer, sharper and more open. But by then, the show had already shipwrecked, its narrative power sunk by an essential emotional emptiness...
...point in Act Three, Carol challenges John, "Do you hold yourself innocent of the charge of sexual exploitativeness?" Kaye bellowed the words with ardor, but as Davidson answered, her face and body went totally slack: her fists emptied, her brow unfurrowed, her posture slumped. She seemed to miss that rage exists in Carol's being, not in her words. The desperation, the wounded fury that motivate that kind of indictment, vanished as soon as her line was finished. An actor's seams should not show like this...