Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need not rage, rage against the dying of the light, we may indeed go gentle into that good night," Perkins said, alluding to a Dylan Thomas Poem...
...together in the second floor of the women's studies department, we listened to her speak afterwards about her experiences at Radcliffe in the '50s. A mild-mannered woman during her reading, talking afterwards about her undergraduate years led her to raise her voice in moments of irritation and rage...
...RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE...
...once prayer vigil began my doubts began to disappear. We were doing nothing disruptive. We were simply praying the rosary quietly. The prochoice protesters were shouting, their faces filled with rage. They rattled homemade noisemakers to break our concentration. But we persevered in prayer, in a manner that was unobtrusive, humble and devoid of anger...
Washington does nicely playing the company man as '90s hero, an African American who has learned when to speak up and when to shut up in the white world. Perhaps the actor has learned too well; he simmers handsomely but rarely displays the informed rage he showed in A Soldier's Story and Glory. In his box-office hits (Philadelphia, The Pelican Brief), Washington cedes the fiercer emotions to his co-stars. No surprise, then, that Hackman, as a sociopath, gets all the high notes and good lines ("We're here to preserve democracy, not practice it"). If the performance...