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...Rage Uncorked...
...hope that the center, wherever the hell it is, will hold just until the dawn breaks. Tough music's not in short supply just now, thanks to rap's street attitude, street come-ons, street aggression. Baerwald's songs, flinty and rock-rooted, aim higher. They are full of rage, melancholy and regret for fates that get mixed up and mangled in the course of everyday Armageddons...
...President warned that cutting deeper still might stunt the economic recovery. Nonetheless, he quickly accepted the additional reductions voted by the budget committees. He did not have much choice. His own preaching, and the earlier exhortations of Paul Tsongas and Ross Perot, has made deficit cutting the rage; legislators report that on their visits back home they find their constituents focusing on the deficit as Topic A. That mood has allowed conservative Democrats to drive the debate. The White House must hold on to their votes if any version of the President's economic plan is to pass over what...
Images of other blood connections between women, especially that between sisters, appear regularly in the pieces; together, the works produce an overall sense of "woman power". With titles like "A Poem for a Woman in Rage" (one of the new poems), "For My Singing Sister" "Relevant is Different Points on the Circle", "Black Mother Woman" and "The Woman Thing," Lorde's pieces serve as fiery social commentary...
...Rage and pity, even self-pity, have their place as well as their limits. Now let's try laughter -- the best medicine, as Reader's Digest, Norman Cousins and Paul Rudnick can tell you. Rudnick has already earned many a healthy laugh with his plays Poor Little Lambs and I Hate Hamlet and his comic essays in Vanity Fair and Spy. Jeffrey, though, is a real tonic. It's a wonderful comedy about a rancid tragedy: the crape of death hanging over any gay guy who is crazy about...