Word: ragingly
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...Bergman's men (and especially his women) might rage against the prevailing gloom; Antonioni's people (and especially his men) sink into it. Their problems are hard to define, and beyond salvation by God, psychoanalysis or madness. They don't cry; they barely have enough energy to shrug. Are they alive at all, or the reduction of humanity to zombies? Long before George Romero, and in chic Rome instead of a Pittsburgh cemetery, Antonioni filmed his own Night of the Living Dead...
...This week alone, firefighting fatigue claimed the lives of four people - two firefighters and two civilians - upping the death toll to nine since the start of the season. Blazes continued to rage in all corners of the country, razing thousands of crops, scores of livestock and a number of homes. Hordes of tourists were forced to evacuate hotels and holiday resorts, fleeing Greece as local governors declared states of emergency in a raft of districts and islands. Bewildered by the crisis, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis purportedly scrapped plans for an early election, turning instead to Russian President Vladimir Putin...
...patients: Forget "god- awful pasts," face fears and change actions. In this way the rebellious author of more than 70 books, including the best-selling Sex Without Guilt, planned to "cure every screwball in New York, one at a time." Starting in the 1960s, when Freudian therapy was the rage, critics attacked Ellis' rational, short-term approach as superficial. Still, the treatment has been shown to be effective for many in tackling depression, anxiety and other ailments. Ellis...
...abortion "tragic" and said she dreamed of the day when the procedure would never have to be performed, the approach appealed to centrists. But it inspired pro-choice champions to argue that such rhetoric makes women feel guilty and plays into the hands of the right. Just as arguments rage within the right between fiscal and social conservatives and between libertarians and virtuecrats, the left has its own internal wars...
...their 7-year-old son dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Officials said Benoit--the 2004 world heavyweight champ whose signature move was the "crippler crossface"-- strangled his wife, smothered his son, placed Bibles beside them, and hanged himself on the pulley of a weight-lifting machine in a rage that may have been steroid-induced...