Word: rage
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...original subject matter, Woodruff says that the project is really about the artist who created it all, Rinde Eckert, and the versatile talents of the company in residence at the ART. Highway Ulysses was born from a song-cycle written by Eckert about Vietnam veterans and problems with rage and violence that resulted from their war experiences...
...found out that our roommate Tyler had invited all of these people that we definitely did not like into our blocking group. Some underlying tensions about blocking that were present within the group erupted into a rage in Annenberg. Whereupon Tyler hurled a tray at James and Jim yelled out, ‘Fuck you!’ This shouting match persisted all the way back to Weld where James, a big scary jock, picked up the spindly Tyler, with his little feet dangling, and threatened to punch him. But Tyler only responded with...
...environment such as Harvard, where political correctness and cultural sensitivity are all the rage, how can everyone get away with insulting the Midwest all the time? What is it with the use of Middle America as a synonym for the unenlightened? Yeah, people in the Midwest hunt and pray to Jesus Christ, but that doesn’t mean that the region is full of low-brow hicks. My experience with people at Harvard is that they apply stereotypes to the Midwest in ways that they would be outrageously offended by if the same kind of simple-minded stereotypes were...
...walking away. Everyone in my family feels that way. We all drive one." It's hard not to see such attitudes as evidence that a highway arms race has begun. Asks Gregg Easterbrook in a recent New Republic piece on SUVs: "Can it be a coincidence that road rage started to become a national concern in the mid-1990s, just as these pharaonic contraptions began flooding the roads?" (Perhaps he's right, but Easterbrook hurts his argument when he suggests SUV drivers have "serious psychological problems...
...banquet of his major works harvested from leading European and American galleries, can be savored at London's National Gallery from Feb. 19 through May 18, and - in slightly different form - at the Prado, Madrid, from June 9 through Sept. 7. Saints and pagan gods were all the rage in the 16th century, and Titian's patrons wanted lavish scenes to decorate their castles and palaces. And what's not to like about the divine lifestyle: a constant round of wild parties, battles, adventures and seductions. The stories gave Titian a chance to luxuriate in glowing nakedness, gleaming jewelry, strokable...