Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mousse came along in time for the shorter, sculpted styles of the 1980s, which require more control than did the straight cuts or frizzy perms of the past decade. Cropped shapes are the rage at New York City's Kenneth salon, where some 500 customers are moussed each week. Says Owner Kenneth Battelle: "It adds structure to that particular look." Mousse also spruces up older styles. Neinast did two mousse make-overs of Actress Susan (Dallas) Howard's long, flyaway tresses. The result: "a tousled and layered look that's fuller...
Capitalizing on the rage for things Oriental that had also seized writers such as Pierre Loti and Gustave Flaubert and scholars like Sir Richard Burton, the Orientalist artists vied with one another in seeking out exotica. Harems aside, the subjects that most mesmerized them were slave markets, carpet bazaars, whirling dervishes, Arab stallions, caravans of caparisoned camels and wind-whipped burnooses of Bedouins on the sands of the Sahara. "There is a fortune to be made for painters in Cairo," noted William Makepeace Thackeray on a visit to Egypt in 1844. "I never saw such a variety of architecture...
After the game, Cameroon team members were burning with rage over the officiating, and suggested that racism may lie at the root of the calls against them...
...never have happened." She meant that soft-spoken James Nelson, 39, is one of the most prodigal of sons ever to be approved for the Christian ministry. On Oct. 30,1969, near Glasgow, Nelson got into a row with his mother over a girlfriend and, in a fit of rage, began bludgeoning her with a truncheon. When it broke, he went after her with a brick. Nelson dragged her body out to the garage, changed his bloody clothing, washed up and drove into the city, but later that night turned himself...
Waiting is a form of imprisonment. One is doing time-but why? One is being punished not for an offense of one's own but often for the inefficiencies of those who impose the wait. Hence the peculiar rage that waits engender, the sense of injustice. Aside from boredom and physical discomfort, the subtler misery of waiting is the knowledge that one's most precious resource, time, a fraction of one's life, is being stolen away, irrecoverably lost...