Word: rage
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...understandable that Carolyn Hax, who writes "Tell Me About It," a syndicated Washington Post advice column for people under 30, has become the rage among readers within and well beyond that age group. Faced with the immemorial conundrums of love gone awry or astray, friendships and families come undone or the regular frustrations of living in a world with other people in it, Hax manages to offer advice that is simple, bracing and smart. To a displaced Alabaman letter writer tired of jokes deprecating the South, she recommends a laugh followed by the remark: "A redneck joke--how unique...
...other words, do you convince listeners with high-tech jobs and PlayStations that they're working on Maggie's farm? Through the '90s, that was essentially the mission of Rage Against the Machine, which covered that Dylan classic on its last album, Renegades (2000). Apropos of another of its Renegades covers, Kick Out the Jams, Rage aimed to be a modern-day MC5, using hard-edged music to ram through a hard-nosed message that was less about peace and love than about old-fashioned, a-pink-slip-and-a-six-pack populist anger. But they were also...
...waiting to play at a London night spot packed with would-be hipsters desperate to get a hit of a new music genre--dubbed "Asian underground" but often consisting of little more than DJs sampling Indian folk music over drum-'n'-bass beats--that was then the rage in U.K. clubs. "There was a band on before us," Sriram remembers. "And a couple of Asian guys came on with sitars. They didn't even know how to hold them. They twanged one note, and the crowd goes, 'Yeah, this is Asian underground.' After two notes, they put down the sitars...
...Lance Morrow: The Case for Rage and Retribution
...cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage...