Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real Cruella DePill type, makes Robbie a tiny living lab for dubious experiments. Ann Beckett's bold teleplay charges doctors with being addicted to prescribing dangerous drugs to kids. The medical ordeal also acts as a mind-altering drug on Dave and Lori; it twists their love into rage and recrimination...
...finally rejected him, just as he was deciding to recommit himself to her. She began to treat him like a stranger. That, Petrocelli said, is when three weeks of retaliation began. In that period, the lawyer argued, Simpson grew angrier and more obsessed with his ex-wife, developing a rage that resulted in death for her and Ron Goldman...
During the criminal trial, many observers worried about Goldman's mental state. His rage at Simpson was so great that some feared Goldman might seek to take justice into his own hands. Says Goldman: "Of course you get angry. But that is the difference between decent folks and criminals. You do not commit acts of violence. I will never accept the fact that he walks free. And I would have preferred a conviction in the criminal case. But the biggest difference between the two trials is that this was our case against him. We got to call the shots...
...race is a nebulous concept, racism remains a concrete reality. Cose, author of A Nation of Strangers and The Rage of a Privileged Class and a commentator for Newsweek, confronts this most sensitive of American subjects with a mix of think-tank analysis, anecdotal journalism and cautious Utopianism. Before he is through, however, his lofty vision of a color-blind society has been modified into a 12-step program for a "race-neutral" nation...
...incident reminded me of my freshman year, which I spent at Columbia University before transferring here. It was all the rage to be gay there; gays and lesbians were viewed by a sizable portion of the undergraduates as fashionable and interesting, fabulous people to know. A friend of mine there complained about it all the time: he felt that many heterosexuals wanted to be around him because his "gayness" intrigued them, and he was concerned that these people were overlooking the rest of his personality...