Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every new mom I knew was rushing out to buy the latest in high-contrast black-and-white toys purported to stimulate neurological development. Musical crib mobiles playing Beethoven were suddenly the rage. Even videos claiming to help prepare four-month-olds for reading appeared on the market. The new data about the complex brain-wiring process that begins right after birth seemed to suggest that simply cooing and cuddling with Baby was not sufficient...
...Friends learned then not to think Hyde's usual civility meant he lacked a fighting spirit. Corboy recalls Hyde getting mad at him during a game of two-on-two basketball. Says Corboy: "He threw the ball either at me or against the wall in an expression of complete rage. I said, 'It's only a basketball game.' And he replied, 'What else is there...
Baker is looking at Yopp's lifeless body. But he is seeing a different woman--and feeling an unexpected rage. "Why, Dad?" he is thinking. "Why in hell didn't you drag me out of bed? I was thinking, well, at least they get to see their mom." The sequence lasts "about a twentieth of a second" before Baker enters the room where the Yopp family waits. Before God takes over...
...face fixed in that fine silver frame?/Were you really so unhappy then? You never said." In these final three words, Costello and Bacharach condense the touching inability of the narrator to reconcile his traces of love with the reality of heartbreak. The lyrics convey the narrator's simultaneous rage at his lover's silent suffering and at his own obliviousness. This is the roughness of love: its strange contradictions, its pain and its insensibility. Similarly poignant and delicate expressions distinguish the album as a whole, full of songs about the attempt to reconstruct love from fragments from the past...
Radcliffe Public Policy fellow Wendy Kaminer will address "Censorship, Unreason and the Therapeutic Culture" on Nov. 17. Kaminer is an attorney who is also a regular commentator on National Public Radio. She has also authored several books, including It's All the Rage; Crime and Culture...