Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...torso - this is what he has been given, and what not even the worst of directors can debase... Through him, mise en scčne [a film's visual strategy] can confront the most intense of conflicts and settle them with the contempt of a god imprisoned, quivering with muted rage...
Whether the rage was muted or explosive, Heston was surely a movie Colossus, made to be seen on the wide screens that proliferated in the 50s. Or, even better, on a tall one - the CinemaScope frame should have been stood on its side to do justice to his star bulk, physically and psychologically. Beyond the stupendous torso, he gave the impression of thinking out his dialogue before he spoke it; he was a pensive glamour boy. Like fellow postwar stars Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, he'd tense his neck muscles and speak in a sonorous growl that brought authority...
...origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties in the late 1970s evolved into the musical form that burst into popular consciousness with the Sugarhill Gang and Run-D.M.C. He analyzes how the violence and rage of NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” during the crack epidemic changed hip-hop dramatically, leading to the rise of G-funk and East Coast-West Coast rivalries, and ending with hip-hop selling to mostly white audiences. It’s an important story...
...parents hand us a world driven mad by violence and fear. We inherit a legacy of consciously cultivated division and rage. We have been taught to fight each other, yet as youth, we have more cause than any group to be united. We share in the fact that as young people, we must inhabit this world the longest. As the most recent arrivals, we have the least stake in the old feuds and irrational strife of the past. Today—bound together by instantaneous global communication—we are conscious of this in a way no other generation...
...battles of the war. He was horrified at the pictures coming out of Abu Ghraib, and even more so when he began to learn that this may have represented the kind of policy,that we were torturing people by choice, not by accident, and by direction, not by occasional rage. My father believed, in World War II at least, they were getting great intelligence by not doing this stuff. Furthermore, they were doing it against an enemy that had tortured us, that was perceived to be fanatical and beyond the reach of reason - all the things we later said about...