Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rocked in his shoes; he folded and then unfolded his arms; he fidgeted with the papers on his lectern. But the man once crowned Senator Hothead did not blow. As he remembers, "I had to say to myself, 'Look, John, you're not going to gain anything by displaying anger here...
...course, President John McCain would not be the first Commander in Chief to snap his pencils out of pique. Bill Clinton is famous for his purple rages, usually directed at his staff. Eisenhower's fits were volatile but short. Kennedy said anger was a luxury, but his 1962 negotiations with steel companies over price controls were set back when he quipped that his father was right to have called steel executives "s.o.b.s." Nixon's anger was more corrosive. He expelled pure poison on the White House tapes and had particular enemies chased by the irs. L.B.J.'s long-standing feud...
...Beatles, The Carpenters, The Monkees) and feed them through a blender of late '90s noise. Without a guitar on the majority of their songs, Quasi focus on the interplay between the roxichord (Coomes' organ-like instrument) and drums. What they lack in musical accompaniment, they make up for with anger and volume. During "Our Happiness is Guaranteed," Janet Weiss pounds out drumbeats that come close to knocking her off her own stoo, while Coomes climbs on top of his keyboard and takes a few moments to beat it senseless in a furious blowout of metallic screeching. It all makes...
...Iggy mean it, anymore? You go listen to a Stooges album now; it's violent and misogynist and abrasive; it's the sound of people desperate to feel anything, be it pain or hate or love or happiness, but willing to settle for anger and self-loathing. Because it's better than feeling nothing, than living in '70s suburban Michigan and not meaning shit to anybody, even yourself. That was Iggy 30 years ago; Iggy now is "Behind the Music." So now Iggy's on stage and 50 and performing the same songs he was then. Sure, the band...
Women like Williams have taught me that feminism has little to do with anger and nothing to do with hate. The cause does not concern placing blame on men as a gender, it concerns a female's reconciliation to herself, her self-identification and her self-love. It concerns my right to choose what I want to look like, what I want to be when I grow up, and how I get to then from now and from before...