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Tina Turner's first role since the Acid Queen in Tommy shouldn't frighten anyone away. As Auntie Entity, the self-styled empress of the "slimepit" Bartertown, she performs with a perfect pre-apocalyptic charm, which gives way only when she must express and contain the rage of a town whose people have only very recently lost everything they ever...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Beyond Cult Films | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...hope the Russians love their children too"), the old Police-meister can still turn a nice phrase. In We Work the Black Seam, he finally gets the balance right; between simplicity, sincerity, a pressing issue and a catchy hook: "One day in a nuclear age/ They may understand our rage/ They build machines that they can't control/ And bury the waste in a great big hole...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: All Sting and No Bite | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

...King Agamemnon. So did Hamlet, who could have killed Claudius at his prayers but then decided not to risk the possibility that the wicked uncle's soul might thus reach heaven. "No./ Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent;/ When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage . . . / Then trip him, that . . . / his soul may be as damn'd and black/ As hell, whereto it goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mengele:Non Requiescat in Pace | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...take the poor-old-England line of analysis. England lost her empire, so she gets frustrated from time to time, which filters down to the working classes, who vent the national rage by beating up on people. Or the unemployment argument: more than a million young Britons out of work, cruising for a battle they can win. In more general terms, these soccer riots might even be pinned on politics: the European Cup seen as Europe's latest intramural war. Or sex: Could the scene in Brussels be the re-enactment of the rape of Italy by a frothing, snorting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suddenly, Two Waves of Death | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...stadium walls are cemented, the dead have been carted away. Were it not for the holes in the census, one would never know that a disaster took place, so smoothly does the earth seal its fissures. Even memory, which honors and cherishes the dead, recalls nothing of the rage except that it existed, that it was awful feeling like paper in a storm, even of one's own manufacture, yet the experience was also like some ancient dream, the survivors hoping feebly that from now on the gods will be kind. So has the world advanced to its current state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suddenly, Two Waves of Death | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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