Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised that you find America's mood hopeful-sort of. A few years ago barbecued ribs were all the rage. Then we switched to a bitter diet of crow. Now that the indigestion has all but passed, peanut butter doesn't sound...
Writing Cook. Because Roots is a black family reunion of sorts, Haley sees some distinct differences in why whites and blacks are so attracted by it. Discounting speculation that his work would unleash black rage, Haley says, "I've not heard one murmur of radicalization from blacks. I have heard ebullience and happiness that the story has been told. The blacks who are buying books are not buying them to go out and fight someone, but because they want to know who they are. Roots is all of our stories. It's the same for me or any black...
Some slave women were raped and others treated with kindness. A slave named Frank Bell in New Orleans was often kept in chains; his master discovered that Bell had married and, in a drunken rage, cut off the girl's head...
...nonaddict. Yet the drug Baudelaire was most addicted to was hope: luxe, calme et volupté-the elegance of Islamic paradise, a Christian's heavenly peace and a pagan bliss of the senses. Baudelaire chanted of this blessed trinity while he suffered the diseases of the age: poverty, rage and soul-withering ennui...
Pepsi's Russian aficionados are experimenting with new ways to enjoy it -not all of which would fall in the health category. The latest rage-so new that it does not yet have a name-is a fifty-fifty mix of vodka and Pepsi in a tall glass. Hammer and Pepsickle...