Word: rant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week the House Speaker seemed to revert to the bomb-throwing, publicity-starved backbencher he was in the 1980s. On Tuesday night, with a partial government shutdown at hand and his deficit-reduction plan heading for a Presidential veto, he charged onto the virtually empty House floor to rant about the budget before C-SPAN cameras and a handful of junior members. The next morning, he whined to reporters that his stubbornness on the budget was partly inspired by an indignity--the President had forced him to exit Air Force One by the rear door upon returning from...
...found himself pigeonholed as one of the Angry Young Men, postwar British writers from the lower classes who seemed bent on toppling the shaky but still oppressive Establishment culture. The label never fit Amis comfortably; he was, at most, an Irritable Young Man, more likely to hoot than to rant. His use of humor as a means of subversion proved remarkably effective and durable. Works during the 1950s by other so-called Angries--novels by John Wain (Hurry on Down) and John Braine (Room at the Top), the plays of John Osborne (Look Back in Anger)--no longer excite much...
DIED. MAXENE ANDREWS, 79, singer; in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Reduce World War II to three voices, and the choices are obvious: the rant of Hitler, the rumble of Churchill . and the single, seamless sound blended from the warble of the Andrews Sisters: Maxene, Patti and LaVerne. The trio first flew up the charts with 1937's bilingual Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, a Yiddish ditty infused with the giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe. Wartime hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941) and Rum and Coca-Cola (1944). The 1967 death of LaVerne ended the Andrews Sisters' career...
...Arab people. It is true Minister Farrakhan insisted that all Black women stay home. It is true--Professor West could not have known this at the time, but my hunch is he would agree after having attended the march--that Minister Farrakhan's two-and-a-half hour rant all but ignored the purpose of the march, with its extended numerological speculations about the height of the Lincoln Memorial and the number of chapters...
...Jackson inspired the jubilant crowd. And yes, even Minister Louis Farrakhan, though long-winded, preached a message that emphasized courage and faith. He was unflinching in his rebuke of white supremacy as well as black wrongs. All Americans should have listened to him. His speech was not a hateful rant nor the message of a bigot...