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...Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton and Social Critic Fran Lebowitz. She found them grappling with entirely new areas, such as smoking, computer and answering-machine etiquette. Says Castronovo: "It can be argued that the new manners include both lighting your companion's cigarette and snuffing it out in a rage...
...1970s, my parents would have dinner together at the long table in front of the downstairs fireplace as they always had, but they could rarely get through the meal without a fight. She would leave the table in tears, or he would get up in a cold, self-righteous rage." To get away from home, he took teaching assignments at the University of Iowa and then Boston University and philandered openly: "My father had discovered groupies." In Boston, he was visibly and often embarrassingly drunk. Notes Susan: "We stayed away from him, and so did most people...
...matador, at the bullring watching Escamillio in action. Beckoning to meet him outside, he begs her to be his love again. The closing aria is one of alternating pleading and denial in which Carmen, refusing to become a caged bird, falls victim to Don Jose's blind rage...
Thinking of Orwell, what the Brown students did seems hopeless and misdirected. But at the same time that these students were "unrealistic," their protest represents a valuable rage against a world which frustrates peaceful change and promises a nuclear firestorm. It is true that an influential article in Scientific American may do more to prevent an anti-ballistic missile system (which will almost certainly make the world less safe) than a cyanide referendum at Brown. But such articles have been published, and the present administration still intends to develop defensive weapons. It is still within the realm of reason that...
Even though Bic has beaten Gillette in the lighter skirmish, the battle between the two companies will rage on. The firms are equally fierce competitors in the throwaway pen and razor markets. While Bic's pen outsells Gillette's Write Bros, model, the Gillette twin-blade disposable Good News shaver holds an edge over the Bic single-blade entry. Gillette is also the leading producer of blades and razors in the U.S. and Canada and most of the rest of the world. In the bathroom battle at least, the American company continues to clean...