Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abandoned the instant his considerable fortune is gone, has been set in the jazz age and augmented with music by Duke Ellington. The semimodern dress and judicious pruning of the most convoluted language makes the text accessible, and its cynicism about the rich is timeless. But the play's rage depends in large part on the context of classical notions about the sacred nature of hospitality. These ideas of mutual obligation, almost unto ruin, were antique in Shakespeare's day, and are alien to our own. Thus Bedford wisely plays the extravagant Timon as a bit of a buffoon, easily...
...passions in these psalms are familiar: anguish, anomie fueling rage, solitude seeking fusion, a gonadal pulse that just won't quit. Ah yes, the soul of rock in its giddy, roiling infancy. The singing voice is familiar too. That pure tenor -- its piercing power and excellent elocution suggesting a glee-club star who's just been kneed by the school football coach -- could belong only to Marvin Lee Aday, known to the world as Meat Loaf. First as Eddie the zombie biker in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), then as star of writer-arranger Jim Steinman's ambitious album...
...title. Amid reasons for sorrow, the Mundy women held onto joy. The three couples in Tennessee who come to the same lonely rural spot for a birthday outing seem defeated by ordinary travails. The one vital outburst, a passage from Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata played on the accordion, expresses rage as much as rapture and comes from a man who knows he is dying...
Initial stock offerings are all the rage, but buyers beware...
Night has come to Laguna Beach, and with it, cool, wet breezes from the sea. Although more Santa Anas are predicted and many of the state's fires continue to rage, this particular furnace has been banked. That is small solace to the groups of people, who, at 1 a.m., are already dodging police blockades to sift through the ashes and weep. A nighttime wanderer seeks out Skyline Drive -- once a noble address -- and finds a row of unconnected stone chimneys, naked and alone as tombstones and lit by the bluish flames of broken gas mains...