Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite as glitzy and brash and hilariously in-your-face as its predecessor, but then Atlanta in the late '90s, where most of the action occurs, is a more well-mannered place than New York City was in the '80s. The same bloodlusts--sex, money, status--rage in the New South as they do everywhere else; it just takes a little more digging to find them. Wolfe does, of course, but among all the animal appetites that are slaked or comically thwarted during the novel there appears one new to Wolfe's fiction. For all their affluence, or their pained...
This Pleasantville, this Bedford Falls, this Brigadoon, this Springfield, you see, is really Stepford--a place so sanitized there are no toilets or double beds, a people so insular they have never known what it's like to feel unprogrammed joy or lust or rage or bravery or intellectual adventure. When they finally open themselves to these emotions (by gazing at a Picasso or hearing Buddy Holly or spending the evening with a naughty girl from the '90s), the people of Pleasantville literally blush into color. They wear their passion on their shamed, fervent faces, on their clothes, like...
...from bad relationships. Unlike so many who continue to make unhealthy choices, feeling sorry for themselves or blaming others, Oprah evolves. She doesn't spin around the same lame stuff. Think of what she's accomplished in one lifetime. Think of how everyone loves her. In a cynical, road-rage, self-absorbed America, Oprah is a hero we can all identify with and aspire to emulate. CHERYL O'DONOVAN URBANIK Schaumburg...
Does your suite smell a little odd? Before you fly into a rage at your semiautistic roommate for peeing in the corners again, check to see if you've remembered to take out the Garbage. You stupid girl, how could you forget? Garbageis here, and they're trashing up the town with guest Girls Against Boys. 8 pm. doors, 9 p.m. show, Palladium...
Slam has a message of desperate do-gooding. It dares to say that education helps. That poetry can teach killers a saving sweetness. That words matter. Even--especially--four-letter ones, when a gifted loser fashions them into images illuminated by the lightning of his rage and fear...