Word: rant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours of granola TV, with bugs copulating to Mozart). But try them with newer, more controversial, or more demanding work and watch the faces in the boardroom drop. Corporate is nervous money; it needs the NEA for reassurance as a Good Housekeeping Seal of approval. Our problem, despite conservative rant, is too little Government support for the arts, not too much. Even if we had a ministry of culture to parade the roosters, we would still need the NEA to look after the eggs...
...folks, these are hosts of radio call-in shows. Such programs, of course, have long served as a sort of national party line, a place where average citizens can rant, in blissful anonymity, about everything from the local baseball team's losing streak to the Bush Administration's arms policy. The hosts are often loud and abrasive, with an opinion for every issue and a put-down for every adversary. But in the past few months, a clutch of conversationalists has crossed the line from simply mouthing off to orchestrating nationwide political protests...
...even had dreams of entering my old high school history class, and hearing my teacher rant and rave as if nothing had changed. ("Let's continue from last week, kiddos. WRITE THIS DOWN!!! France, an important country. WRITE THIS DOWN...
...trying to influence the South Africangovernment, Horner says an institution has to askitself, "'Why are you doing it' and 'Who are youtrying to speak to?'" Rather than merely making ablanket political statement through fulldivestment, Horner says universities "must educateby what we do, and not what we rant and raveabout...
Side Two opens with "Rant and Rave," a tempo-shifter with fun horn charts and fascinating rhythms; this is followed by "Nineteen Forever," another anthemic track in the "Blaze of Glory" mode and about as interesting. "The Best I Can Do" is a ballad that suffers by comparison with its Side 1 counterpart, largely because it's melody becomes monotonous after the requisite three or four repetitions...