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...congressional races most eagerly targeted by the Republicans is the reelection bid of Oklahoma Democrat James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee. Jones has incurred the Reaganauts' wrath by forcing them to compromise on Administration spending measures on the grounds that the budget deficit was growing too fast. Though his reputation nationally is that of a moderate conservative, the Republicans have portrayed him in Oklahoma as a free-spending liberal. Both Jones and his opponent, Frank Keating, a former FBI agent and U.S. attorney, are financing expensive campaigns with a blizzard of cash donated by party election funds...
...tore away such large chunks of land that private, $100,000 homes are no longer sitting on privately controlled property. When officials moved in to claim the land for sunbathers and fishermen and to require that some of the houses be abandoned without any state compensation, the homeowners' wrath easily matched that of Alicia. A maelstrom of lawsuits is still raging...
Earlier this year he brought the wrath of Texas down on himself by advocating that less emphasis be placed on high school football, which is a little like telling Texans to raffle off the Alamo. By selling their 45% share of EDS, Perot and his family could reap as much as $1.3 billion...
...those popping out of his past and present. Just the memory of Rakel can make him feel a sense of loss, as he considers her promise destroyed by drink, abuse and self-hatred. Only Anna's threat to walk out on the play can rouse him to wrath, for she is betraying not just Strindberg or her fellow actors or the audience, but the holy Henrik. Like any other man, he is susceptible to the attentions of a strong, beautiful young woman; like any other director, he can both experience an emotion and observe it from a dispassionate distance...
About these and the many other pos sible metamorphoses, the wise critical deponent should say nothing, lest The Wrath of the Trekkies descend on him for spoiling the story they have been so eagerly anticipating for two years. What can be freely stated, given the fact that Leonard Nimoy himself directed the film, is that the fate of Vulcan's favorite son is treated with the highest seriousness...