Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old son in Brazil, just before they were to return home, because he made the fatal error of wearing a shiny new watch to the beach. The parents realize that much of their high-minded shame about unknown babies malnourished by infant formula is really self-absorbed rage at the company for somehow causing the death of their son. This self-knowledge pervades the stunning finale. The husband has retreated to the Mexican inn where the couple spent their honeymoon. As he waits, on the traditional Day of the Dead, hoping his wife will come to him, she appears...
...smoking city, the trial became a symbolic test of national values -- something that trials, with their focus on factual specifics and winner-take-all outcomes, are not constructed to be. The acquittals were so shocking to a nation mesmerized by a videotape, and so achingly rejected in riot and rage, that it was inevitable the case would somehow be tried again. This time, with the jurisdiction federal rather than local and the charges focused on civil rights, the burden on participants is greater. The result will be momentous, but the nation is really watching for what comes after. As defense...
...Rage Uncorked...
...SONG OF JACOB ZULU, which Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe brought to Broadway last week, redeems its overlong preachments with Eric Simonson's deft direction and K. Todd Freeman's luminous acting of the title role, especially a final monologue in which he unsentimentally uncorks the rage that drove a minister's son to terrorism. What makes the show unique is the unearthly beauty of a capella songs by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the group highlighted on Paul Simon's Graceland album. The nine singers become a sort of Greek chorus and attain the dimensions of classical tragedy...
...hope that the center, wherever the hell it is, will hold just until the dawn breaks. Tough music's not in short supply just now, thanks to rap's street attitude, street come-ons, street aggression. Baerwald's songs, flinty and rock-rooted, aim higher. They are full of rage, melancholy and regret for fates that get mixed up and mangled in the course of everyday Armageddons...