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...think his selection would be so controversial. Perhaps I was too naive, but I assumed that since Powell was clearly a distinguished American, he was a most appropriate choice. Since then, I have seen the debate over whether Powell's selection was in fact an appropriate one rage in the op-ed pages of The Crimson and other campus publications. I have seen friends argue both sides of this issue and do so in predictable ways--Democrats and liberals seem to oppose Powell's selection or are keeping quiet while Republicans and conservatives seem generally enthusiastic about...
...wrote her Orlando treatment in 1984 but found no takers. "Investors," she says, "often have trouble believing that a woman can handle large sums of money and lead a team, that she has a sufficiently firm hand." So Potter directed for TV: the series Tears, Laughter, Fear and Rage (1986) and a 1988 documentary on Soviet women. Still, she says, "Orlando wouldn't leave me alone. So five years ago, I got my script out and said, 'I don't care how long it takes or what it costs me -- I'm going to make this film.' You must...
...father. Instead of condemning him, men admire his virility and women court him. When it is revealed that he only wounded his father, they turn on him as a fraud. The adulation makes emotional sense if one sees parricide as a metaphor for rebellion against a political patriarchy. The rage at the hero's failure is a mix of thwarted longing for excitement and dashed hopes for social change...
Someone fetch me my smelling salts! The Crimson has bumbled yet again, this time making little 'ole me crimson both in rage and embarrassment: In the May 19th issue, Mr. Stephen Frank wrote a story whose eye-catching headline proclaimed: "HDS Food Safety is Questioned: Cook Died of AIDS." This tabloid-like text reeks of the spirit of the illustrious Mr. Hearst who, as we all know, had a particular penchant for yellow--journalism, that...
...when anomie and rage masquerade as meaning for most rock bands, it's easy to forget that progressive politics and music once resonated to the same social vibrations. That has never been a problem for Midnight Oil, the Australian outfit with a knack for turning its ideals into pop anthems for the common man. In the group's 1988 hit, Beds Are Burning, singer Peter Garrett warned: "The time has come/ To say fair's fair/ To pay the rent/ To pay our share...