Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Readers of the National Enquirer (circ. 4.1 million) and its bitter rival Star magazine (3.6 million) know what the real news is. DOLLY PARTON GETS GIANT NEW BUST IMPLANTS!, shrieked a recent issue of the Star, while the Enquirer offered a must-read yarn headlined ED MCMAHON FLIES INTO RAGE. For 16 years the dueling scandal sheets brought blood-and-guts drama to U.S. supermarket checkout counters. But the publishing pugilism came to an end last week when the owner of the National Enquirer, New York City-based G.P. Group, agreed to buy the Star from media mogul Rupert Murdoch...
When U.S. Air Force flyers dumped millions of gallons of an oily herbicide called Agent Orange over the thick jungle canopy of war-ravaged Viet Nam, they unwittingly started a battle that would rage long after the last American helicopter left Saigon. Over the past 13 years, some 35,000 Viet Nam veterans have vigorously pressed Washington to compensate them for injuries and illnesses that they believe were caused by exposure to Agent Orange. The herbicide contains dioxin, a potent poison that causes cancer in laboratory animals. But Government officials have delayed paying most claims, pointing to a lack...
After the 1988 election, in a rage at George Bush's conduct, I was particularly susceptible to liberalish junk mail. What I hungered for was a group called something like Patriotic Americans for Flag Burning and Prison Furloughs. What I settled for was the likes of the American Civil Liberties Union, Handgun Control Inc. and my local public-television station. In the past few months, they have all been hitting me up for renewal. What's more, they have generously shared my name and address with other groups willing to gamble that a tender concern for the First Amendment...
...Brick, a football hero turned alcoholic who is mourning his lost youth, the fading of his athletic prowess and, above all, the death of his best friend Skipper, whose devotion to Brick was deeply, if never explicitly, sexual. In some interpretations, Brick is unquestionably homosexual himself. In others, his rage at his wife Maggie stems from her having forced him to confront an uncomfortable truth about his friend. Daniel Hugh Kelly splits the difference. His Brick unmistakably was capable of physical love with Skipper; just as unmistakably, he remains capable of physical love with Maggie in what is played...
Everything about this latest rage, adds Cuomo quickly, should be viewed as "a continuum. The '88 presidential campaign was full of crassness and negativism. The lesson was, You do what you have to to win. You lie, you cheat. Whatever it takes. But engage in civil discourse? Forget about it. You want to win, you follow the polls. Supporting the death penalty is just the epitome of the syndrome. It's the shepherds following the sheep, without stopping to think about what happens when the sheep get to the cliff...