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...moment last year we seemed to be on the verge of a major new trend, the theme of which was angels. People were snapping up angel pins and wearing them on their shoulders, where normally the chip is carried. Soon, the trend spotters hoped, there would be a rage for choir music, angel food cake and Marshmallow Fluff. Huge feathery wings would sprout out from trench coats and parkas. But, alas, angels sputtered and stalled and never quite got off the ground...
...nomination for his 1969 screenplay Women in Love, then co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and the radical Act Up. Onstage, he retold his life in The Normal Heart (1985) and resumed it in this off-Broadway stunner. Jonathan Hadary gave the performance of the year, balancing titanic rage, puckish mockery and suppressed self-pity...
Kaffee's only hope of saving his clients is to break Jessep on the stand, to make the court see that the colonel's rage for order is the ultimate source of the Code Red. Here, of course, we enter familiar (or Caine Mutiny) territory. And here writer Aaron Sorkin, adapting his own play, finds another obvious psychological balance: confronting a powerful older man, Kaffee is also confronting his forbidding father's memory...
...equal and opposite atrocity). A second motif is Complete Denial (We did not do it; they did). Which yields the third theme: Everyone Is a Victim, which means of course that everyone is justified in committing any act. We-They. We victim; They did it. The dynamics of rage and outrage reverberate through the mountain forests and down the generations...
...deprived children. "I doubt if anyone in the British Isles is better at going into a ward filled with people with cancer or AIDS," says biographer Philip Ziegler. Those close to her say the princess is very savvy and streetwise and, when not in the grip of frustration or rage, well able to size up her position. "She recognizes what people want from her," says someone who has worked with her, "and she just goes and works along. And she gives as good as she gets." She is said to live very intensely and put her all into anything...