Word: lashing
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...blend of hard rock and the blues, Drunk Horse’s third album, Adult Situations, is a throwback to classic 70s rock while still remaining unique through the edgy modern punk that’s thrown in the mix. The slow yet loud and angry tunes of Bongzilla lash at the country’s current marijuana laws in their third release, Gateway. Denmark-based On Trial, armed with their third album titled Blinded By The Sun, evoke the psychedelic 60s through the use of the organ and the sitar. 9:00 p.m. $9; 18+. The Middle East Upstairs...
...doctors, Shmuel Gillis, was shot dead in the West Bank by Palestinians in February 2001. To avoid clashes with victims' families, an Arab social worker usually stationed in the E.R. no longer works there immediately after terrorist attacks. E.R. technician Assaly is also wary of victims' relatives, who often lash out at him on the wards. As he develops Lekior's chest X ray, Assaly, who learned Hebrew from a suicide-bomb victim he treated, recalls stopping at the site of a terrorist attack last year and administering first aid. An Israeli identified him as an Arab and tried...
...South London constituency, says "the culture isn't limited to youngsters of Caribbean extraction but is spreading out into other black communities, and into Turkish and Balkan ones." While last week's headlines prompted calls for stronger action against gangs, the government's first reaction was to lash out at the most predictable target. Culture Secretary Kim Howells suggested that rap groups, in particular London's garage collective So Solid Crew, were at least partly to blame. Three of the 30-member band have been arrested on separate gun charges. "Idiots like the So Solid Crew are glorifying gun culture...
...when disgruntled French farmers wanted to lash out at the forces of globalization, it was a McDonald’s that they chose to dismantle. Much more recently, a Saudi man entered a Riyadh McDonald’s and set fire to it, igniting it with a pail of petroleum. The alleged motive was to punish the restaurant for serving food during Ramadan. But it’s not hard to see the symbolic meaning in this act of terrorism, as Saudi oil mixed with American grease to burn down the temple to the patron saint of decadence...
...tendency of some or many of their adherents to insist on looking at the world as being made up of those who are good (me and my group) and those who are evil (everyone else). It is not enough to nurture their own relationship with God; they must also lash out and attempt to extinguish those who belong to other faiths, whom they see as threats to their own salvation. MARK MILNE Zurich...