Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love without hurting people, without being devoured? That is a child's question, of course, and so plaintive because it can't be answered. Listening to this urgent whisper against the constraints of civilization, you can hear an old Scorsese bull snort under its breath. This is the rage of innocence...
...game called MUD is the latest rage on computer networks...
There's a paradox in being a rock-'n'-roll rebel. To succeed is to fail; the more records you sell, the more you're considered a sellout. Your raison d'etre is antiestablishment rage, but once your record goes platinum, you're forced to admit that a) you're now part of the problem or that b) maybe at least some of the people with a zillion dollars in the bank aren't all bad. Either way, everything feels compromised, corrupted. The phone rings. It's Philip Morris -- they want to sponsor your next tour, hold a cigarette giveaway...
...wannabes, at their center a failed scriptwriter turned kept man who is enjoying a brief and perilous brush with freedom. Hovering immediately above, in splendorous isolation, is the woman who keeps him, a Hollywood has- been turned loony recluse, stalking the ornate staircase of her pseudo palazzo in murderous rage. The juxtaposition is a miracle of stagecraft -- the weighty rococo mansion thrusts up and over the partygoers with noiseless ease -- and is also the signature moment of London's most anticipated theatrical event this year. In Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation, the movie classic Sunset Boulevard has much...
...cheap. To create a "blunt," teenagers slice open a cigar and mix the tobacco with marijuana. To enhance the hit, they fashion "B-40s" by dipping the cigar in malt liquor. In Atlanta, police observed 100 teenagers and young adults at a rave party in an abandoned house -- the rage among middle-class youths everywhere with money to burn -- and their rich assortment of hooch: pot, uppers, downers, heroin, cocaine and Ecstasy, a powerful amphetamine. In Los Angeles, Hispanic gangs chill out by dipping their cigarettes in PCP (phencyclidine, an animal tranquilizer), while black gangs still favor rock cocaine. Some...