Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace pact at hand, but the inflation and energy wars rage...
...more by her boss's fluffy conception of her than by his cover-up of her nuclear accident story. "I've got a pretty good job, and I fully intend to keep it and get a better one," she tells Adams before he leaves the station in a rage. By the film's end, although she is not polished at doing hard news as she is at cute features, she gets a great story...
...honest to slick up their style, they began to be as obsolete as a 78-r.p.m. single. Here and there, Balliett touches on the poignancy of their lives, as when Blossom Dearie says wistfully, "I'd sort of like to become the rage for a while." As American Singers makes clear, she never will be. But there are all kinds of celebrity, and Balliett's glowing tribute may prove more enduring than gold records and cabaret applause...
...without feeling guilty about it." Dartmouth men, especially jocks and fraternity men-the latter also only 30% of the student population-frankly lament the change. "What's wrong with four years without women?" a fraternity boy asks. Just lately the faculty has stirred a certain amount of rage and despair in many a Big Green breast by urging the college to abolish its 22 fraternities on grounds that they are antithetical to academic progress, unhealthy for social conduct, as well as being noisy centers of alcoholic disruption and childish antics...
...gentle to rage against the dying of the light, Norman goes in for a good sassy snarl. Rather like the father in "Da," he is one of those curmudgeons you grow fond of simply because he is so deadpan funny. But his sarcastic bark is a stoic camouflage for his losing bite on life. In one affecting scene, Norman goes out to pick strawberries and returns shortly with an empty pail. A memory lapse has prevented him from recognizing the old path and reduced him to a frightened child seeking the solace of a familiar face...