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Just six months ago, a mad-as-hell voter enraged at the mess in Washington and disgusted by compromising politicians in both parties would phone his favorite radio-talk-show host to vent his throw-the-bums-out spleen. Now that same populist rage is dialing right into the political system -- right into the volatile center of the 1992 presidential race -- and mainstream politicians from Bill Clinton to George Bush are all but cursing the invention of toll-free telephone numbers...
Last Rights is a wrenching electronic cry of rage and personal disintegration, as tempting and raw as a hangnail. You will flinch. . .but that's the point...
...when Hally learns his father will be leaving the hospital and coming home, he flies into a rage, ostensibly because he will have to "rub his gammy leg and empty his pisspots" again. But his real anger stems from blaming his father for being ill, an alcoholic and a racist...
...social upheavals and new poverty brought about by the Industrial Revolution, troubles that preceded its immense benefits. The man-made calamities of the capitalist free market constituted, as it were, acts of God without God. The socialist movements that sprang up in protest were animated partly by Luddite rage, partly by the dreams of a just and stable society, a New Jerusalem. These dreams have not been eradicated by their devastating practical failure...
...great American music machine still maintains its twin capitals in New York City and Los Angeles, but its epicenter is inclined to shift as frequently and erratically as a tropical depression. Athens, Ga., was the regional rage just . . . well, was it yesterday? And there was Minneapolis only a few years back; before that it was Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis...