Word: wrath
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...scientists play in these movies. In "Close Encounters of the Third-Kind," they are a sinister pack of bureaucrats who stifle the simple, pure-hearted spirits of the U. F. O. witnessers. Indiana Jones, the anthropologist hero of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," is spared the ark's deadly wrath only because he refuses to look at it, hardly the most scientifically curious of approaches. The various technicians who tromp through the haunted house in "Poltergiest" are useless, for all their sophisticated machinery, in the face of the specters who have set up shop there...
...speech is ineffably corny, American transcendentalism filtered through the pop leftist rhetoric of a 1930s bestseller, brought to the screen in 1940. Yet four decades later this scene from The Grapes of Wrath still shines as one of American film's privileged moments. And the viewer's eyes still shine in response to it, no matter how many times he has seen...
...street and greet the world. But what about that Hare Krishna in the Square who has selected Harvard as his personal, proselytizing mission? Miss Manners informs us that Harvard can boldly go about the business of the day without concern for the feelings of the street zealot or the wrath of the Almighty...
...also find themselves in a difficult dilemma. Their attempt to deal a military blow to the P.L.O. may not bring a political solution to the aspirations of 4 million Palestinians any closer. If Israel annihilates the battle-hardened veterans of the P.L.O. by storming Beirut, it will incur the wrath of Washington but fail to extinguish the spirit of Palestinian nationalism. Yet if the Israelis withdraw from Beirut and grant the P.L.O. a face-saving retreat, they will forfeit the psychological benefits of the crushing victory that their government wanted as the main justification for the invasion...
...just to see E.T. The mysterious combustion between a movie and its audience has created half a dozen outsize hits and made this the hottest season in U.S. film history. Records have been shattered at the box office. Biggest opening weekend for a movie: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (June 4-6). Biggest opening two weeks: E.T. (June 11-24). Flashiest streak for the industry: the past six weeks, every one of which earned $100 million in the U.S. Moviegoers were still lining up to see Rocky III ($75 million in six weeks), Conan the Barbarian ($39 million...