Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serving a 25-year sentence in New York for killing her husband. He had tormented her for years, both physically and psychologically. Then she reportedly learned that he was sexually abusing her granddaughter. On the night she finally decided to leave him, he came at her in a rage. She took a rifle, shot him, wrapped him in bedsheets and then hid the body in the attic for five months...
...scary Monopoly, about a departed lover, Colvin flays herself: "I'd rather do anything/ Than write this song for you." She warns herself not to soften the blow with irony: "Retreating behind these lines/ The same old tongue in cheek/ Regretting that both are mine." She swells into Faustian rage ("Imagine the nerve of God/ Letting me let you in") before sinking with the admission that "I would be anywhere/ Than here without you." This is bitter poetry: passion recollected in futility...
Pacheco's Treat rushes through the apartment, alternately bounding with glee and storming with rage. In several frightening scenes, Pacheco successfully enacts Treat's childish inability to control himself as he mercilessly abuses his brother...
...moment last year we seemed to be on the verge of a major new trend, the theme of which was angels. People were snapping up angel pins and wearing them on their shoulders, where normally the chip is carried. Soon, the trend spotters hoped, there would be a rage for choir music, angel food cake and Marshmallow Fluff. Huge feathery wings would sprout out from trench coats and parkas. But, alas, angels sputtered and stalled and never quite got off the ground...
...nomination for his 1969 screenplay Women in Love, then co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and the radical Act Up. Onstage, he retold his life in The Normal Heart (1985) and resumed it in this off-Broadway stunner. Jonathan Hadary gave the performance of the year, balancing titanic rage, puckish mockery and suppressed self-pity...