Word: wrathfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grape of Wrath: Editors should force writers to establish themes quickly and economically. In face, limiting Steinbeck in this manner might even further his theme of poverty and hopelessness; Bunches of grapes for the privileged, one grope of the deprived. Of A Mouse and A Man stands on the horizon...
...last week Ohio Democrat Metzenbaum drew attention to the practice by mounting a filibuster against the Christmas ornaments. In the process he has incurred the wrath of his colleagues. Says Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, in words seldom uttered in the august corridors: "I think he's a pain...
...scientists play in these movies. In "Close Encounters of the Third-Kind," they are a sinister pack of bureaucrats who stifle the simple, pure-hearted spirits of the U. F. O. witnessers. Indiana Jones, the anthropologist hero of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," is spared the ark's deadly wrath only because he refuses to look at it, hardly the most scientifically curious of approaches. The various technicians who tromp through the haunted house in "Poltergiest" are useless, for all their sophisticated machinery, in the face of the specters who have set up shop there...
Cohn is no Noah. Indeed, readers would do well to give up any notion of decoding the ciphers and symbols that fall as thick and fast as the hailstones of God's wrath. What is one to make, for example, of Cohn's companion on his frail ark: a talking chimpanzee named Buz, after "one of the descendants of Nahor, the brother of Abraham the Patriarch." Granted that Cohn, a former rabbinical student, is given to excesses in biblical name giving, his choice of Buz is scarcely apposite; the chimp is a Christian convert who crosses himself when...
...speech is ineffably corny, American transcendentalism filtered through the pop leftist rhetoric of a 1930s bestseller, brought to the screen in 1940. Yet four decades later this scene from The Grapes of Wrath still shines as one of American film's privileged moments. And the viewer's eyes still shine in response to it, no matter how many times he has seen...