Word: wrathful
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Beset by the Arabs, Turks and Iranians who surround them, the Kurds say they have no friends save the mountains. And it was to the mountains that hundreds of thousands of -- some say as many as 3 million -- Kurds fled last week for refuge from the wrath of Saddam Hussein...
AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE (PBS, March 20, 22). The anthology series opens its 10th season with a double dose of Broadway: Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's musical twist on Grimms' fairy tales, and The Grapes of Wrath, the Steppenwolf Theater's adaptation of Steinbeck's Depression novel...
...example, when the two simpletons cowered before the wrath of Master Arnolphe, Burrell had them perform more acrobatic stumbling than the Lowell JCR stage should have to endure. The most abominable aspect of their performances was the pseudodialect of the male servant, Alain (Bliss Dake). One could never be sure whether he derived his verbal twang from the deep South, southern California or the center of London. The accent quickly became so distracting that the servant follies never attained their potential hilarity...
...woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room kill, and do it all with a hard smirk. Roy hardly stands a chance with Lilly. He can rebuff her seductions, but he can't duck her wrath...
...civilians in a noncombatant state. Taking a terrible pounding from the air, he sends some of his best planes and pilots to the airfields of a neutral country, leaving his troops and citizens that much more defenseless. He parades visibly mistreated POWs before TV cameras, arousing the disgust and wrath of the powers arrayed against him. He releases hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf, threatening not just his neighbors but also his own people with ecological disaster...