Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When health clubs became a rage in the 1980s, everybody loved to sweat. Squadrons of would-be Schwarzeneggers and Fondas pumped iron, tightened tummies, aerobicized -- and often found attractive new friends. But after years of pulling in clients almost effortlessly, clubs are facing new challenges. For one, the proliferation of health spas, which have doubled in number, to 20,000, since 1980, has created fierce competition. And as members grow older, they are becoming pickier, more prone to injury and, often, just plain bored...
...material Alan J. Pakula was put on earth to direct. Klute, The Parallax View and All the President's Men are all marvelously intricate visions in which otherwise quite knowing individuals are slowly forced to the awareness that they are being victimized -- no, terrorized -- by other people's unscrupulous rage to maintain respectable order at any cost. Yet conscientiously as this movie has been made, it does not work as well as the novel did or as some of Pakula's other films have...
...same stage, as if for journalistic convenience, were the other fringe players in this netherworld of black rage. Helping open Farrakhan's rally was Congressman Gus Savage, lately reproved by a House committee for the sexual harassment of a Peace Corps officer, which trouble, among others, he blames variously on the racist media and Jews. To complete this chilling tableau, also on stage was Tawana Brawley. Two years ago, she turned New York upside down by charging she'd been raped for four days by six white men. The story turned out to be a fabrication. But she carries...
...much more likely to grow up in poverty and be undereducated and poorly housed. Children born of teenage mothers are twice as likely to die in infancy as are those born of women in their 20s, and they are much more likely to be raised in resentment and rage...
Silber has evolved from a political asterisk to serious contender in five short months by becoming a channel for rage and frustration against bureaucracy in general and the fiscally disastrous administration of Michael Dukakis in particular. He capped his uphill fight by narrowly corralling the necessary 15% of delegates at a chaotic Democratic state convention. For that feat, Silber drew at least as much attention as former state attorney general Francis X. Bellotti got for finishing first...