Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, in East Rutherford, N.J., 16,000 screaming teenagers attended a benefit concert in support of a convicted cop killer. Rage Against the Machine and the Beastie Boys, popular musical artists and, no doubt, sophisticated observers of our criminal justice system, were the headline performers. Also last week, on this campus, posters began appearing in support of the very same murderer, touting an upcoming "Worldwide Student Walkout" on his behalf. The posters, sporting a grinning photo of the condemned, describe him as an "African American Political Prisoner." They encourage public protests and, of course, donations to his legal defense...
...when the facts of the situation are considered with an objective eye, these activists, The Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine and all those concertgoers last week, simply look like fools. They've all been enchanted by a charismatic criminal and their own romantic delusions that they are fighting a great populist battle against the injustice of The Man. In reality, they've senselessly allied themselves with a cold-blooded sociopath who deserves the sentence that was handed him. They can hang all the "Free Mumia" posters they want, but Mumia Abu Jamal is a cop killer and Mumia should...
While it is easy to have no sympathy for a well-heeled man who apparently murdered a woman out of jealous rage, there are reasons to harbor lingering doubt about the verdict. Capano continues to deny he committed the crime; the fact that he was more defiant than remorseful at his sentencing hearing perversely hurt his chances to live. (The jury apparently expected another sudden switch and admission of guilt.) No body or murder weapon was ever found, and the prosecution relied entirely on circumstantial evidence...
Flower-essence therapy--the use of, say, holly or five flower to treat a variety of ailments, including rage and earthquake trauma--is also increasingly popular, accounting for half of all sales at Pets Naturally, a health-food shop in Los Angeles. Massage therapy is being used to treat equilibrium problems. Michael Holloway, owner of Pet Massage Rehabilitation Services in Boca Raton, Fla., says his business, which treats pets for physical and mental problems, has grown sevenfold in the past two years. "Bodywork can allow them to be less contact phobic," he says...
...some fun shooting up and stealing. Here two career criminals (James Woods and Melanie Griffith) adopt a young couple (Vincent Kartheiser and Natasha Gregson Wagner) into la dolce venom. There's a droll tough love in this inversion of Father Knows Best, where Dad is given to arias of rage, Mom kills people, Bud and Princess do junk. The tone is naturalism run amuck: two-ton emoting, closeups of syringes in groins. Enough! But it's fun to see a scene stealer like Woods go bananas. Here he goes a bunch of them...