Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Debates still rage in Moscow about whether hard-liners might try another coup to restore something like the old communist regime. But the real question is, Why should they bother? Already, conservatives -- in a post-Soviet context, those who resist change in the old Kremlin ways -- have been staging a kind of "creeping coup." They have been worming their way into key positions in President Boris Yeltsin's administration and are beginning to bend policy toward continued, or even increased, state control of the economy. Crows Arkady Volsky, head of the anti-Yeltsin faction: "The policies of the reformist government...
Green Magnet School, now signed on sub Pop, also graced T.T.'s with their presence. Their hard rock grooves and melodic vocals may bring them mass success given the current rage for various former labelmates. Regardless, they gave the audience 15 minutes of pleasure. On the down side of things, Meltdown featured absurd, pretentious vocals and silly heavy-metal lead guitar. And the Vancouver duo Mecca Normal's set was too long. The guitarist did evoke some interesting sounds from his guitar with his rapid, jerky arm movements, but his partner did not add much with her less accomplished guitar...
...tended to explain away tyranny perpetrated by blacks against blacks across the continent, attributing it -- sometimes correctly -- to manipulation by former colonial powers or by Washington. Genocidal ethnic conflicts such as the vicious clan warfare now taking place in Somalia go largely ignored. Conversely, black Americans have directed enormous rage at the oppression of black Africans by white South Africans, for the good reason that it is the brutally undemocratic African society that most closely resembles...
...atmosphere up there in Connecticut is so rife with rage against me. So it's possible this emerged from that. But it also could have been made up intentionally...
...didn't stay wonderful. As New York Newsday blared in its Tuesday headline: IT'S GETTING UGLY. The Connecticut charges hit the papers, and Farrow's support team started spreading the bad news. Her friend Maria Roach released a Farrow letter, eloquent in its rage and despair: "I have spent more than a dozen years with a man who would destroy me and corrupt my daughter, leading her into a betrayal of her mother and her principles, leaving her morally bankrupt with the bond between us demolished. I can think of no crueler way to lose a child...