Word: ragingly
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These days, and increasingly so, the playwright is indignant. Unlike a youth's reckless rage or an old man's sour huff, Michael Gurr's fury radiates white heat. "I've never been angrier," he says. "Our current national government has presided over a time of almost unbelievable moral corruption." Gurr is speaking about toughening up the idea of compassion, his words punching through the chill wind of a bloody-minded Melbourne spring. His conviction is kinetic: he's a man with a steady gaze and fresh legs, impatient to change the temper of the times. What...
...Dirty Blonde, her newly published diaries, COURTNEY LOVE exhibits a heretofore unappreciated level of self-knowledge, vocabulary and scrapbooking skill. The bricolage of old photos, handwritten lyrics and musings include Love's teen aspirations-- "I have a rage for success"--and juvenile group- home reports. The rocker-widow- provocateur writes to her dead spouse about their daughter's teacher and describes an Easter-egg hunt at Liz Taylor's house. "I love being famous," Love says. "Because no one else has it. Because it's psychicly [sic] charging. Because...
...game like this requires good actors to give it heft and plausibility. I'm not asking for today's equivalents of Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, the stars of the Sleuth movie, but there's more to acting, even horror movie acting, than screaming in agony and shouting in rage. Whannel (who is charm personified when chatting about the film on the DVD featurette) and Elwes can't manage the crucial middle range of emotions the two men have to feel in the moments when they're not trying to kill each other or save themselves...
...simple compared with the 1989 storming of St. Patrick's Cathedral by AIDS activists. Gallaudet's current protests, which began months ago and have involved blockades and arrests and charges of violence on both sides, aren't Selma; they're Chicago in 1969, the deaf community's Days of Rage...
DIED. Wang Guangmei, 85, elegant former first lady of China who was targeted during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. Wang suffered because of a falling out between her husband ex-President Liu Shaoqi and Mao Zedong--which landed Liu in jail, where he died--as well as the jealous rage of Mao's wife Jiang Qing. The well-educated Wang was also imprisoned and once suffered a public parade in which she was forced to wear a necklace of Ping-Pong balls...