Word: vendettas
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...letter is not, players say, a personal vendetta against Restic. It was not written with the intention of getting Restic fired. It was written to air out important grievances that many players have with Restic's coaching...
Plans to make The News completely autonomous are being considered, although they are still up in the air, LaJoie said. "I would welcome such a move," Sochacki said, adding that he has no vendetta against the paper. "You can't throw out the baby with the bath-water," he said
...news of Nkomo's dismissal circulated, security around Salisbury was noticeably tightened and crowds of pro-Mugabe demonstrators took to the streets to hail the Prime Minister's decisive action, Nkomo was denying knowledge of the buried weapons or any coup plotting. "It's a political vendetta," he told TIME at his home outside Salisbury. "This young man Mugabe is trying to hide two years of failure. He can come here and shoot me if he likes. I will survive, and he will see me creating history in this country." Indeed, after two decades of struggle...
...crooked benefactor--seems obscure, especially compared to Des's obvious motivation. Sibling rivalry is part of it, but not all. Tom may be seeking a kind of absolution for leading a life so much less holy than his brother's, but that too seems inadequate to explain his obsessive vendetta. Not even Duvall's gritty and angry performance can make it clear. Perhaps there is no explanation at all; perhaps the nervous, frustrated Tom--hands rubbing relentlessly on the table, feet and eyes never idling--simply has stored up too much resentment over the years and must disgorge it somewhere...
...frustrations on her daughter, and she no doubt drank too much. But do we really want this mess laid out in graphic detail? Do we want to see Joan spanking Christina? Do we want to witness petty family squabbles? Mommie Dearest comes off as little more than the private vendetta...