Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Skateboarding may be all the rage in places like trendy Southern California, but in Madison, Wis., it is definitely on the outs. Two recent accidents, one when an inebriated skateboarder sailed through a shopping-mall store window at 1:30 a.m., have the Madison police department and some city council members up in arms. Various punitive and restrictive measures are under consideration, including a proposal that would subject skateboarders who are weaving suspiciously to a Breathalyzer test, the same one given to Wisconsin's automobile drivers. In Madison, it seems, some stiff fines may soon await stiff skateboarders. While...
...guerrillas who arrived in Jordan last week found a country that was still seething with rage over the invasion of Lebanon by the Israelis, the siege of Beirut and the military defeat of the P.L.O. The Jordanians did not so much attack the Israelis-they are assumed to be the perennial foes-as the U.S. and the other Arab states. The U.S. was criticized as the ally of the Israelis. Said one knowledgeable Western Western diplomat: "There is no question but that the level of anti-Americanism here has reached an alltime high in many, many levels of Jordanian society...
...with questions about why Jordan had not broken relations with the U.S. over the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. They went so far as to ask why Jordan was not willing to permit democratic institutions to function. The King handled his interrogators skillfully. To identify with, if not coopt, Palestinian rage over events in Lebanon, the King called for the creation of a People's Army, a sort of militia of all Jordanians, both men and women, trained to defend the country. Considering the danger that such an army could turn against its creator, it was a risky proposal...
...gunmen who burst into Paris' most famous Jewish restaurant last week, spraying lunchtime patrons of Jo Goldenberg's with submachine-gun fire before escaping, left more than just six people dead and 22 injured in their wake. The close-knit Parisian Jewish community reacted with rage, fearing that the attack presaged a new wave of anti-Semitic violence in Europe. The attacks were also part of a general war in Paris that suggested that the City of Light had become an urban oasis of terrorism...
...Public Service Building in Portland, Ore., is nearly completed-on schedule and within budget. Yet the storm of controversy the building has raised is likely to rage long after its official dedication on Oct. 2. The issue is style. With this one brazen gesture, the architect, Michael Graves, 48, attempts to supplant modern architecture's heroic industrialism with postmodern architecture's heroic . . . what? Perhaps it might be called Pop surrealism that uses classic design elements the way Walt Disney cartoons used the physiognomy of a rodent to create Mickey Mouse. For all its playfulness, however, the Portland Building...