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...painfully aware. We meet him first in a supermarket, where he is getting fired from his job, but the scene quickly shifts to outside an L.A. home where a gang of punks are into some serious slam-dancing action. The scene and music (solid hardcore) immediately conjure up the rage of Decline, the late great documentary about the L.A. punk scene. Now we find Otto in bed inside with some girl, spreading himself out in his underpants as if to say, "Gimme a blow job." The girl asks him to get her a beer, and he obliges only to find...
...without warning. Over Easter weekend, it shifted the exchange rate on all imports (except petroleum) from one peso per dollar to a free-market rate of 2.5 per dollar. When Dominicans woke up Monday morning, they discovered that many prices had more than doubled. They reacted in a collective rage, and the government had to call out the army to quell the disturbances...
Undoubtedly, the controversy will rage on, but Lewontin and his co-authors have done an excellent job of criticizing the sociobiological point of view. Not in Our Genes is an entertaining and informative critique of the too-often trumpeted cause of genetic determinism...
...children and, indeed, to much of the reading public. Rebecca West, by contrast, was a woman of sharp beauty, "wit, acute observation . . . and a wild paranoia." Through the ten years of their romance, she tells friends of various humiliations: Wells ignores her, he suffers from fits of maniacal rage, he becomes childishly dependent. But the author says, "I cannot believe a word . . . they are inventions," and then goes on to document "what my father was doing in the real world, as opposed to that of my mother's fantasy...
...collar feminism, Watching the Clothes; and, perhaps best of all, Thumbelina, one of the most hard-boiled lullabies ever written. Set to a kind of choogling Nashville beat, the song manages to combine love for the innocence of a young child ("shuffled about like a pawned wedding ring") and rage over a broken love affair into a song of bitter pride: "What's important in this life?/ Ask the man who's lost his wife...