Word: ragingly
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...America has scant appreciation. Even with spillover grosses from the 1995 Italian hit Il Postino, last year's foreign-language earnings amounted to less than 1% of the total U.S. box office. This is down from 4% to 5% in the 1960s, when foreign-language films were the intellectual rage du jour and an inspiration for smart Hollywood directors. Today, with an adventurous spirit and a full tank of gas, you might track down a small gem like Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, a period comedy with rapier wit, or Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie, a sardonic thriller about the death...
...wonderful losers such as Rusty Brown, a more realistic and thus more disgusting version of Comic Book Guy; the hapless future citizen in “Tales of Tomorrow;” Chalky White, the good-hearted Midwestern father willfully blinded to his teenaged daughter’s unfocused rage; and Quimby the Mouse, the obscene and ill-tempered doppleganger of the 1920s Mickey Mouse...
...Facebook Fanaticism,” column, Oct. 12, and “Students Rage for a Living Wage,” news...
...inspire such kinetic joy in their audiences. The lights refract off toothy grins and illuminate a sea of enthusiasts bouncing up and down as the band crank back up to the strains of Ladyflash, the Go! Team's set closer. Earnest and angular rock may be all the rage, but the Go! Team's angst-free confections make you dance and wave your arms. Last year, though, the Go! Team could have played in one of London's narrow red phone booths and still had room to spare. Literally. Ian Parton - who performs like a one-man band...
...Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, Class of 1998, is the most prominent recent example. But he didn’t start at Harvard until well on his way to rock success. Still, renowned guitarists such as Dean Wareham ’85 (of Galaxie 500 and Luna) and Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave’s Tom Morello ’86 spent their undergraduate careers as mild-mannered Social Studies concentrators, and didn’t find real musical success until after leaving the Square. Perhaps Harvard is holding back musical genius, after all.Take the post-punk...