Word: wrath
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...Jesse James (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Fonda is virtually cornered into renegade political activism; a corrupt System flays him, but under the vulnerable Midwestern skin is a species of American hero. In his best comedy, The Lady Eve (1941), Fonda is the perfect patsy for a con woman, Barbara Stanwyck?so perfect that she falls in love with the sap. Watching Fonda writhe under Stanwyck's bogus endearments remains one of the high delights of screwball farce...
...question is whether the U.S. will gain anything much to compensate for, and eventually assuage, Israeli and American Jewish wrath. Deeply worried about the fragility of the truce in Lebanon, the Administration hopes to replace a Saudi-mediated cease-fire with a more permanent arrangement to restore the authority of the Beirut government over its own country; that would involve withdrawal of Syrian troops and stringent restrictions on P.L.O. activity in the country. Reagan's special envoy, Philip Habib, will return to Beirut in mid-November to see what can be done in enlisting Saudi and Israeli support for such...
...world cannot negate the fact that these are tiny freaks of nature (It's hard to ignore their apparently knuckle-less fingers). In one ostensibly dramatic scene, a dwarf is enraged at the apparent death of his fellow. He shrieks and struggles and has to be restrained. O, the wrath of an angry midget! He is acting over his head. It is too sad to be comical and too comical to be affecting, but the film's moralizing tone demands he be taken seriously. Maybe that's a jump a kid can make, but it's trying for anyone else...
...This ghost story can not succeed without an effective ending, one in which the ghost and its victim confront each other squarely. In The Haunting of M, the ghost is never vanquished, merely disappointed by Marianna. Thomas ending seems muted in its Victorian delicacy. Marion, wrapped in such timeless wrath, should be less amenable to the coquettish defenses of Marianna...
...backed by representatives of similar "green vote" groups, brought that petition to the steps of the Capitol. There the 50 bundles, containing some 1.1 million names, were accepted by House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and California Democratic Senator Alan Cranston. As for the subject of all this wrath? Watt, 43, was out on the hustings staging his own "green" campaign-drumming up Republican funds for next year's congressional elections...