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Article: The many faces of anger. (includes related article on anger as problem behavior)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- January 1, 1990
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You don't have to be a film buff to know that some of the most unforgettable moments at the movies weren't all sweetness and light. What could be more memorable than the fury of the Wicked Witch of the West when Dorothy escaped? Or Jimmy Stewart's desperate anger in "It's a Wonderful Life" when his bumbling uncle lost the bank's daily receipts? Or, more recently, the heroines's angry trashing of her boyfriend's convertible in "Mystic Pizza"? All these scenes of anger, bigger than life on the silver screen but true to life in the emotion they portray.
Anger is as much a part of today's screenplays as it was when Spencer Tracy was infuriating Katherine Hepburn, ...