Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That was a curious choice of words from a man who has spent his public life distancing himself from racial stereotypes. But the image of Thomas symbolically dangling from a tree tapped into the pent-up rage all blacks feel at the violence and bigotry they have suffered for centuries: in this case, an appeal to racial resentments was the first resort of a black man accused of sexist crimes. To accept Hill's story, Thomas implied, was to join in a racist plot...
...wavered several times from tears to rage, just as Hill did. And without any of the flustered testimony that characterized his dodging in the first set of hearings, he categorically denied ever harassing Hill. Both had panel after panel of witnesses testify to their integrity. Both wrestled with inconsistencies in statements...
...week of rage in California, as gay activists smashed windows in government buildings, torched the California flag and burned Wilson in effigy. The Governor had betrayed them, the protesters declared, when he announced that he was vetoing AB101, a bill designed to protect homosexuals from job discrimination. Wilson, who won his office with the help of gay support, had indicated in April that he would sign the legislation. But last week, after receiving 100,000 letters from impassioned conservatives urging him to scrap the bill, he changed his mind...
Which is, of course, utterly beside the point. All the posturing just ignored the symbolism. Members of Congress seemed in some cases to be genuinely surprised at the rage the revelations unleashed. Why is everyone interested in this, they wondered, and not my views on the coup in Haiti? All of which served to confirm the impression of a body of lawmakers out of touch with the lives of their constituents and in the habit of placing themselves above the law. This is the Congress, after all, that defends affirmative action and passes laws banning racial discrimination in hiring...
CINEMA Comedy and rage in mono-movies by Tomlin and Bogosian...