Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expected to open the door to further mutual character assassination and details of the couple's party-hearty life-styles; and former playmate Paula Barbieri, who will testify that she broke up with Simpson the morning of June 12, 1994, perhaps providing the spark for an explosion of rage that night...
When Tom Morello, the spectacularly adept guitarist for the politically minded punk/metal/rap band Rage Against the Machine, is asked to name his favorite guitar player, his answer is intriguingly atypical. He doesn't name Led Zeppelin's much copied Jimmy Page, though he does allow that Page's "mysterious, unsavory" guitar solos made him think, when he was young, that he too could "channel mysterious, unsavory things into suburban Illinois through my guitar." And he doesn't name Jimi Hendrix, though when Morello was a student at Harvard in the mid-1980s (major: social studies), he sported an impressively expansive...
Following in the tradition of Joe Hill, the Clash and others, Morello and Rage Against the Machine marry their music to radical politics. The band's sound is terrifically assaultive: on its most recent album, Evil Empire, the songs have the crunch and grind of metal with a bit of the energetic bounce of hip-hop. The band's lyrics also pack a punch: the new single, People of the Sun, is an attack on American foreign policy toward the anti-government Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico (Morello charges that the U.S. is supporting an oppressive Mexican government when...
While some might argue that it's unseemly, if not a bit screwy, for a major-label band (Rage Against the Machine is on Epic, which is owned by Sony) with an Ivy League guitarist to decry networks, millionaires and capitalism, Morello says there's no contradiction. "There's no more or less irony," he says firmly, "than in buying a Noam Chomsky book at Barnes & Noble." And if Joe Hill were alive today--who knows?--he might well be on MTV right alongside Rage Against the Machine...
...Cisneros, CEO of Embotelladras Hit de Venezuela, the Pepsi bottler there. But Cisneros became a Coke convert for a reported price of $300 million, a whopping chunk of cash for half interest in the business. The swiftness of the deal left Pepsi's regional president, Alberto Uribe, sputtering with rage: "Oswaldo Cisneros was my friend. He sent me four lawyers and a judge to tell me this was over." Cisneros cited Pepsi's lack of commitment to the business and his own bad health as reasons for the switch. "I gave those men five years to take a decision. Five...