Word: wrathfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...placid corridors of the United Nations had suddenly been transformed into a war zone. "You bandits, get out of here!" angrily shouted one diplomat. The objects of his wrath: two startled representatives of Afghanistan's U.S.-backed mujahedin groups, who had shown up for a press conference. The aggressors: several members of Kabul's delegation, who began pummeling the mujahedin...
...Party, is a comedy of slow self-destruction. Mr. Simpson merely misses his train, and the inevitable chain of disasters begins, reaching a comic critical mass in a mud patch in the English countryside. On his journey into an ordinary man's heart of darkness, he incurs the wrath of wife, ex-lover, police, and hapless passersby, and attracts the affections of one of his older students. The climax at the headmasters' conference is a hilarious recreation of Simpson's schoolroom with adult students, bringing the plot into a neat full circle...
Their efforts produced some stunning footage for Lucasfilm, including a 37- second hologram of a planet floating in space in Return of the Jedi. There was also a memorable one-minute sequence in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan of a barren, moonlike sphere being transformed into a living planet, complete with computer-generated mountains, oceans and blue-green atmospheric haze. But in the end, even Lucas balked at the cost. "I don't want to be in the R.-and- D. business," he said earlier this year. "It's just too time consuming and expensive." Enter Jobs...
...Aguirre: Wrath of God Fri.-Sat. at 6, 10 p.m. Also...
...truncated America the Beautiful might be tolerable, but Methodists have risen up in wrath over censorship of the Battle Hymn and especially the beloved Onward. In recent weeks the hymnal committee's Nashville office has been besieged with 9,000 letters of protest. Chastened, the panel held an emergency meeting last week and reversed itself, though the unrepentant Rev. Beryl Ingram-Ward of Bellevue, Wash., still argued against the notion of "the warrior Christ...