Word: wrath
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...grand mustache, fastened onto one another for long seconds as the reel flickered on. Their kiss suggested not so much the heat of passion as a mishap involving dry ice or Krazy Glue. Still, The Kiss passed for erotica. It created a sensation and called down the eloquent wrath of a Chicago publisher named Herbert S. Stone, who wrote, "The spectacle of their prolonged pasturing on each other's lips was hard to bear ... Such things call for police interference...
...against illegal entry. He earns $68,000 a year to supervise 3,900 INS employees in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam, but if he were paid extra for every raid he has led and every word he has uttered in public--or by the amount of wrath he has aroused--Ezell would be rich. Not just a law enforcer, he is a crusader...
...Botha government may focus additional wrath on the white dissenters in its midst. According to the magazine Financial Mail, Finance Minister Barend du Plessis recently told its Washington correspondent that "when the time comes," Pretoria will "know what to do" with South African businessmen who have been strenuously pressing for racial reform...
...feels that everybody should love him," says Salisbury. Asserts a former employee who incurred Rosenthal's wrath: "He demands absolute, complete loyalty, and when he doesn't get it, there's trouble." Yet even this reporter tempers his criticism with praise: "Abe Rosenthal is an extraordinary journalist. He asks the best questions I've ever heard...
...made great films (Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo) about men who follow their obsessions into the South American jungle. Now Werner Herzog has a real-life visionary in his viewfinder. Graham Dorrington, seated behind Herzog, above, is an English scientist who dreams of building and flying an airship--not a giant Zeppelin but a small vessel shaped like a white diamond. Handsome and haunted, Dorrington has traveled to Guyana to make the damn thing...