Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father. Instead of condemning him, men admire his virility and women court him. When it is revealed that he only wounded his father, they turn on him as a fraud. The adulation makes emotional sense if one sees parricide as a metaphor for rebellion against a political patriarchy. The rage at the hero's failure is a mix of thwarted longing for excitement and dashed hopes for social change...
Someone fetch me my smelling salts! The Crimson has bumbled yet again, this time making little 'ole me crimson both in rage and embarrassment: In the May 19th issue, Mr. Stephen Frank wrote a story whose eye-catching headline proclaimed: "HDS Food Safety is Questioned: Cook Died of AIDS." This tabloid-like text reeks of the spirit of the illustrious Mr. Hearst who, as we all know, had a particular penchant for yellow--journalism, that...
...when anomie and rage masquerade as meaning for most rock bands, it's easy to forget that progressive politics and music once resonated to the same social vibrations. That has never been a problem for Midnight Oil, the Australian outfit with a knack for turning its ideals into pop anthems for the common man. In the group's 1988 hit, Beds Are Burning, singer Peter Garrett warned: "The time has come/ To say fair's fair/ To pay the rent/ To pay our share...
...Madeleine that is intellectually, though not emotionally, in touch with Fergus's elan. Yet despite her strong interpretation of the theme, a weakness arose with their non-spoken rapport. Sullivan's often stolid looks during Poulios's passionate monologue's seemed incongruous. Her gestures and portrayal of surprise or rage were often not very convincing...
...rage for dinosaurs is hardly new. The British anatomist Richard Owen first coined the term dinosaur (from the ancient Greek deinos, "terrible," and sauros, "lizard") in 1841 to characterize gigantic fossilized bones found several decades earlier. Dinosaur bones and footprints had actually been known for centuries, but were ascribed to dragons or extinct lizards or even giant ravens. Owen realized that these enormous bones belonged to a previously unknown and long-extinct group of animals related to but different from lizards. Dinosaurs became an immediate rage in London. An 1854 exhibition at Hyde Park's Crystal Palace featured a number...