Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Combining plaintive alterna-rock lyrics with a Graceland-period Paul Simon sound, the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND has become the rage of college radio. Under the Table and Dreaming, its major-label debut, has also made the quintet an MTV favorite and poised its genteel hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, to become the next Seattle. Lead singer-songwriter Dave Matthews, a hobby painter and self-proclaimed mamma's boy, harbors no Eddie Vedder-ish loathing of fame, though. "I'm grateful as hell. I wouldn't mind people knowing our songs in Tahiti," says Matthews, "or even Outer Mongolia...
...problem with all this enthusiasm about electronically wiring the citizenry to the Washington policymaking machine is that in a sense, it's already happened. Politicians are quite in touch with opinion polls and have learned not to ignore the Rush Limbaughs of the world, with their ability to marshal rage over topics ranging from Hillary to the House post office. Public feedback fills Washington fax machines, phones and E-mail boxes. From C-SPAN's studios just off Capitol Hill, lawmakers chat with callers live -- including callers who have been monitoring their work via C-SPAN cameras on Capitol Hill...
...jury. It's the defendant's smile. Whatever damage has been done in recent months to Simpson's image as the world's most genial jock, it will still be hard to make jurors put aside the old impressions of him. Unless they can imagine O.J. in a murderous rage, it won't matter even if the state offers them DNA blood tests with his autograph on every drop...
None of this is permitted to get Sully down -- not for long, anyway. He may occasionally rage at his narrowing circumstances, but mostly he confronts them with a cheeky joke. Or a boyish prank: he and Roebuck keep stealing a snowblower back and forth. Or some comically self-destructive behavior -- he finally punches out that cop and lands briefly in jail -- that doesn't do him as much harm as it would if this were real life instead of a movie determined to be cheerful at any cost...
...Osborne the stage was a cage. And prowling inside was Anger's protagonist, Jimmy Porter, a bear with poisoned claws, a creature of sadistic, pathetic, possessive, unflagging rage -- rage at the world in general and at any woman in particular, notably his wife Alison. His simmering emotional violence may provoke Alison to break into tears, shy a hot iron at him or walk out. Yet Jimmy sees himself as a Byronic figure, the last righteous romantic. No one can feel things as intensely as he; no one can feel so bereft or betrayed. He can connect with people only when...