Word: ragingly
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...Sonatine (1991), Kitano Man had matured, or wizened, into its now-familiar form: the gang-war veteran who can be impressed or surprised by nothing. He doesn't act out of an awesome rage, like a Pacino or DeNiro hero. He isn't exorcising personal demons, channeling anger against, say, his uncaring parents, or giving an unjust society the dynamite stick up the butt that it deserves. Freud and Lenin are not on his bookshelves. Kitano Man is just doing what he's supposed to?what he, the killing machine, is designed for. A gangster's life, like...
...licensing-fee deals with most of the record companies (not just sugar daddy Bertelsmann), many of which are still suing Napster for "pirating" their music. As long as the labels prefer punitive damages to a piece of the MP3 pie, the free-music party will rage...
Bergman immediately discovered the truth and, instead of offering sympathy, flew into a jealous, unappeasable rage. There was an attempt to patch things up, and their child was born, but their love died, and they separated. Hagberg died years later in a car crash, having inspired, according to Bergman, at least five of the women in his films, a model of "indomitable femininity...
...Almost from the get-go, however, the diminutive and nearly-blind president has struggled to keep his grip on power amid rampant corruption and political infighting, economic turmoil and the increasingly violent fracturing of Indonesia that followed last year's bloodletting in East Timor. Christian-Muslim violence continues to rage in the Moluccas, while the mineral-rich provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya press more forcefully for independence - a scenario as unpalatable to the military as it is to the nationalist Megawati...
...each other from opposite sides of an issue for the entertainment of a nation of groundlings. And television's bottom-feeding, bottom-lining imperatives (a noisy swordplay of issues for the simple-minded masses, translated to high ratings and profits) have conspired with the instantaneous capabilities of the Web. Rage fires and cross-fires through the ether at the twitch of a billion mouse-fingers to create toxic political weather systems, an atmosphere of unthinking scorn, slur and shallow but blinding indignation...