Word: wrathfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steinbeck ended up a Lost Generation unto himself. As a novelist, he found his theme only when he ran into those other lost and rootless Americans, the Dust Bowl migrants, making their way to California's orchards and lettuce farms in 1935-36. The Grapes of Wrath stands as his one full-scale masterpiece...
...after by Hollywood. But for no strange reason, the film he has currently chosen to do, Country, is a Walt Disney movie that also stars (and is co-produced by) Actress Jessica Lange, his offscreen live-in companion. In what has been described as a modern-day Grapes of Wrath, Shepard and Lange, who teamed up in Frances last year, this time play a struggling Midwestern couple who are losing their farm. They have just finished shooting in two little Iowa towns during some of the coldest and snowiest weather anyone there can remember. "The harshness of the Iowa winter...
...beginning were the words. At the top, verbal missiles fired in magisterial wrath: Ronald Reagan denouncing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" that had committed "a crime against humanity" when its fighters shot down a Korean jetliner; Yuri Andropov responding that the Reagan Administration had "finally dispelled" all "illusions" that it could be dealt with. At a baser level, crude vilification: American caricatures of Andropov as a "mutant from outer space"; Soviet comparisons of Reagan to Adolf Hitler...
...produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting depotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals...
...less than the standard $59.95-to-$79.95 price tag for hit movies. The cassette quickly sold 80,000 copies at a time when sales of 25,000 were considered the video equivalent of earning a gold record. Paramount has had several other $39.95 smashes, including Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Flashdance (the current No. 1 bestseller) and now Raiders...