Word: wrathful
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...Bernard's life was going down the tubes: his wrath become disillusionment, his world view one of a fraud. The futile search for the right woman lost some steam. Since the Bicentennial, Bernard has all but dropped from sight...
...first see Karl (Gary Busey) a farm-boy, stumbling across the desert clumsily, trying to escape the wrath of his father-in-law, whose son he accidentally killed. There he meets the legendary figure known as Barbarosa (Willie Nelson), who is himself being pursued by his own Mexican in-laws the Zabala family--because of a long standing, yet obscurely motivated vendetta...
...anyone deserves the maverick lable, it's Weicker. In Congress, he has voted against the GOP line as often as not, earning the wrath of the Republican hierarchy. On issues like busing, which he favors, and school prayer, which he opposes, Weicker has adhered to traditionally Democratic positions. And when Weicker stands alone among his party peers, he by no means constitutes a silent majority. "The problem with Lowell," says one Republican official in New Haven, "is that he makes too much goddamn noise...
...refracting the cynical spirit of postwar Germany through a lens as hip as the new Hollywood's. Herzog renounces the rubble and babble of his homeland; none of his nine fiction features is wholly set there. Instead, he is drawn to legends and nightmares. In Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973), a Spanish officer of the 16th century dreams of conquering South America and ends up alone on a raft, blithe and demented, lording it over some monkeys. In The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (1975), a young man appears in a Nuremberg square in the 1820s, with no recollection...
...protean; usually they assume a single form with which they are comfortable, and stick with it. There is the help-seeking enemy, for example, who plays upon the odd fact of human behavior that by requesting your aid or advice he lowers himself before you and thus disables your wrath by your own sense of shame. Then too there is the help-giving enemy, who attempts to pile so much generosity about your head that you are brought to your knees in response. There is the next-of-kin enemy as well, who takes out on a loved...