Word: ragingly
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What's an editor to do when a word favored by the road rage brigade finds itself uttered by a presidential candidate? Print it or take a more blushing-bride approach? That was the dilemma faced in newsrooms all over the country Monday when George W. Bush, while proclaiming that he wants to run a G-rated, family-friendly campaign, was overhead making making distinctly PG-13 comments to his running mate, Dick Cheney, about Adam Clymer, a New York Times reporter covering the event...
...art/fashion/music nexus. On Nov. 5, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts unveils "Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar," a 350-year survey that's heavy on the post-Stratocaster era. In the same vein, the Brooklyn Museum of Art will premiere "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage" on Sept. 22, a survey of rap culture from its beginnings in the late 1970s. Pick your outfit...
...Johnson was working in the red-in-tooth-and-claw style of hunting-and-fishing prose. The muskie, he wrote, "has the sinister appearance of a stalking submarine." He went on: "There is no other fish like the muskie. It is diabolical in its cunning, maniacal in its rage, unpredictable in its habits. It is the most awesome of all freshwater fish, a creature that captures the imagination, fires the spirit, and - alas - breaks the hearts of fishermen by the thousands." It's got mean little teeth, like a barracuda - or, to take some of the drama...
...grim answer: through a "civil war" already in progress. "I have witnessed the struggle for the soul of American Jewry. It has torn asunder families, communities and congregations," he writes. He describes the embarrassment and rage felt by more liberal Jews at Yale University when some Orthodox students sued to avoid living in co-ed dorms; the dismay of the alumni of a secular Jewish summer camp in New York State upon discovering that their alma mater had been supplanted by the ultra-Orthodox community of Monsey; and the pressures that drove a troubled Orthodox gas-station cashier in Jacksonville...
...doing well enough in life to be in the latter stages of a bar-hop that encompassed most of California and Nevada. "How's the country running? Fine, right? That's all I care about." This was a guy whose admitted only impression of the Gore convention was that Rage Against the Machine had been ill-served by the L.A. police, and he had absolutely no problem with a Gore presidency. "Under Clinton, the economy's great. Might as well be the guy who learned under...