Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clive, the bland boyfriend (Les Welter, an MFA candidate in theater arts), he helps the conflict roll along, siding with the daughter only to fall to her wrath later for inquiring about personal details. His character seems entirely superfluous, and does not really contribute to the development of the play...
Having been attacked by some U.S. church groups over last year's controversial film Priest, the Walt Disney Co. is no stranger to protest. Now the company has incurred the wrath of a government. China's leaders hotly object to Disney's plans to distribute Kundun, a Martin Scorsese-directed film currently in production that tells the story of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. China's leaders get to play the villains, and they are not amused, to the point of making threatening noises about Disney's future in the great market of the future...
...explanations, for example, of the faint glow between the horns of the crescent moon or the origin of fossils, he is nearly a century ahead of the scientific thought of his day. He correctly attributes lunar light to solar rays reflected from the Earth. Like Galileo, he risks ecclesiastical wrath by rejecting the belief that fossils were deposited on mountaintops by Noah's flood (because, he argues, a deluge would have scattered them helter-skelter rather than leaving them in orderly assemblages). And though his mind-set remains medieval, he demonstrates a decidedly modern curiosity about nature, an openness...
...popularity with travelers, the U.S. Shuttle has incurred the wrath of Cambridge taxi drivers and their friends on the Cambridge City Council. Many taxi drivers have complained that they are losing $50 to $100 a day to the shuttle service. For this reason, the City Council has been opposed to the shuttle from day one. The only reason the shuttle has been able to operate at all is that the council has heretofore been powerless to stop it, since the company is licensed by the state of Massachusetts...
Iwas lucky. When I showed my editor what I had originally sent in, he actually liked it, and the two-week lapse had curbed his wrath. I was publicly exonerated at the magazine, just as I had been publicly condemned two weeks before. When I returned, I was greeted with friendly slaps on the back, the criticism redirected toward the Times. But I will never forget the supreme irony of the moment: A writer and a fact-checker, I was dragged through the dirt by force of words and misrepresented facts! I will also never forget that my exoneration...