Word: wrathful
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...from the right wing back to the center of his party. As presidential candidate Bill Clinton proved in 1992, the quickest route from your party's wing to its center is by attacking someone on your side. Clinton took on a little-known rap singer, Sister Souljah, incurred the wrath of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the rest is election history...
...long dry spell." Droughts seem deceptively serene, no more threatening than an endless expanse of blue, cloudless sky. They unfold in slow motion, a tempo ill suited to daily headlines and TV-news reports. Covering one is like sitting around watching the grass not grow. In The Grapes of Wrath, his 1939 novel about the Depression-era Dust Bowl, John Steinbeck captured the idling, hallucinatory rhythm of drought: "The brown lines on the corn leaves widened and moved in on the central ribs. The weeds frayed and edged back toward their roots. The air was thin and the sky more...
...quaking in her hooves: one minute you're chewing your cud, the next you're a UFO. But aside from one poor guy in the prologue, who disappears headfirst into a big storm's "suck zone," Old Bossy is the only living creature we see suffering from nature's wrath in this film. The rest of the time the movie implies that tornadoes practice selective targeting, attacking only trucks with no visible drivers or farms where everyone has safely gained the storm cellar...
Nasrallah: Yes, of course. I believe Grapes of Wrath was not an Israeli military operation with an American green light. It was an Israeli operation decided by America. I believe when Clinton went to Tel Aviv after Sharm el-Sheikh he took the decision for Grapes of Wrath...
Peres needed to find an exit from Lebanon before stalemate became disaster, and he was looking to the Americans to provide it. The U.S. recognized that Grapes of Wrath seemed out of proportion to the attacks that provoked it; though Hizballah had fired missiles at civilians in the preceding weeks, they killed no one. Yet even when Israeli artillery destroyed a U.N. outpost near Qana that sheltered Lebanese refugees, killing 109 people, Clinton and his aides refused to condemn Israel. To Clinton, Peres is the keystone for Israel's effort to reconcile with its Arab neighbors. And as such...