Word: wroth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Each encounter teaches Heron something new. It is when Heron meets Claudia (Anjelica Huston), the doe-eyed daughter of a benign monarch, that he begins to grow to manhood with a fearful swiftness. He protects Claudia when the peasants sack her father's domain. The peasants are exceeding wroth. Heron and Claudia flee. But no man will give them refuge. They have only the shelter of their hearts. Perhaps it is the wind in the trees, but it surely sounds as if Heron, much in despair, cries: "Oh, Claudia, why must man always make war? Why cannot he rest...
...labor pains of his own, replies ruefully: "How did the men ever live through it?" And so it goes, from The First Spat to Son's Wild Oats-something involving a bottle of bourbon. Suddenly it is time for daughter to leave the nest, and Fond Father Waxes Wroth: "My daughter is marrying an idiot." Autumn leaves begin dappling the script; Preston and Martin, grey-wigged, pat the familiar bed farewell...
...shadows begin to lengthen on her lawn and the commercials for virile laundry detergents (Boost!, Blast!, Fist!, Kick!, Sneer!, Guts!) ricochet around the homemaker's uncleaned living room, sloth can easily be accounted for. As for wrath, that depends. Will she one day wax wroth when she suddenly realizes how many sunlit hours have been spent before the tube? Will she rise and turn off the set? Or is she trapped forever in the flickering world of vicarious fun and games, scandal and sex? Tune out tomorrow...
...noble housewife who undertakes too much and then collapses) through Kick Me ("played by men whose social manner is equivalent to wearing a sign that reads 'Please Don't Kick Me' "> to Buzz Off, Buster (the woman who leads a man to water and then waxes wroth when he attempts to drink). Even the nonprofessional reader, after dipping into Berne's turbid prose, will soon realize that the games under discussion, despite their whimsical trademarks, are seldom played...
...usual, the columnist for Lord Rothermere's London Evening News was wroth. "I come home tired and brooding over the Common Market. I switch on the telly-and what do I see? Two spiders mating. And as if that isn't enough. I am thereupon treated to the sight of two newts doing the same thing. Now love-making is a necessary and, from the point of view of those immediately involved, a most delightful thing. But it is not pretty to watch.'' Having got that off his lordship's chest. Arthur Strange Kattendyke David...