Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder, says Silberman, is that blacks did not explode sooner. Instead, they sublimated their rage with elaborate "toasting sessions" at which they would spin tall tales about underdogs outfoxing their oppressors, or celebrate the likes of "the Great MacDaddy" ("Got a tombstone disposition and a graveyard mind"), who would turn white values on their head by being the "baddest nigger." In the 1960s black militants used such folk heroes as role models; Black Panther Bobby Seale named his son after a famous badman of 19th century ballads named Stagolee, "a bad nigger off the block...
...type of movie, the acting job he delivers might have served as an embarassing distraction. But Midnight Express was just the right film for a newcomer like Davis willing to throw himself into the lead role with precisely that lack of restraint. His grimaces, anguished pleas and explosions of rage are perfectly suited to the part he plays and the circumstances Billy faces. This movie required the self-indulgence that comes naturally to an inexperienced actor like Davis, and his occasional histrionics somehow blend into the texture of a film relying on extravagance and emotional catharsis for much...
...others do collapse, the Royals' professional hot dog waits in the bullpen: Al Hrabosky, known as the "Mad Hungarian," who is fond of stepping theatrically off the back of the mound to huff and puff himself up to what he deems his "rage point." So far this year, the enraged Hrabosky has saved 20 games that were slipping away...
...when I heard that "toga parties" were the latest rage on campus, I figured I just had to have one. So I invited all my friends from the various Harvard sports teams, coaches and players alike. And we had some time, let me tell...
While black holes may be hard to sight in the heavens, they are gaining high visibility on earth. They are the current rage of astrophysics, a marriage between the older disciplines of astronomy and physics. Says Astrophysicist W. David Arnett of the University of Chicago: "Black holes are where it's happening these days." Hardly a week passes without the publication of some jarring new conclusion or insight about black holes in the scientific journals. In one of several