Word: rant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...universal but smartly stays close to home. If Bruce Springsteen is the Jersey shore, Billy is Long Island, where the working class that fled Brooklyn stares stilettos at the moneyed folk who summer in the Hamptons. The album opens with the stinging No Man's Land, a rant anthem to the area's cultural deforestation ("Give us this day our daily discount- outlet merchandise,/ Raise up a multiplex and we will pay the sacrifice"), and closes with Famous Last Words, a snapshot of a resort town after Labor Day ("Nothing left for a dreamer now,/ Only one final serenade"). With...
...villains of Raymond Bonner's confused rant about elephants in Africa are misguided animal-rights activists, well-born white conservationists and elephants. Elephants? Bonner's subtitle, Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, constitutes false advertising since the book's sympathies lie with Africans who suffer at the hooves of elephants that trample crops, destroy property and kill natives. According to Bonner, elitist conservationists unleashed these malevolent beasts on hapless villagers when the World Wildlife Fund and the African Wildlife Foundation cynically pushed for an international ban on the sale of ivory in 1989 because it played well with sentimental...
...thing no letter writer fails to accuse us of is hypocrisy. How, the incensed writer asks, can we rant and rave about equal funding for sports on the editorial page but then provide such unequal coverage on the sports page? Similarly, some read our staff editorials and assume that our news coverage reflects our editorial positions...
NORTH KOREA'S DECLARATION OF A STATE OF "SEMI-war" last Monday seemed like one more propaganda rant, triggered by joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises. A few days later, Pyongyang raised the stakes when it announced that it was pulling out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. The decision was a response to growing pressure by the International Atomic Energy Agency to force inspection of two secret sites where Western intelligence officials believe evidence of nuclear weapons materials may be located. By withdrawing from the treaty, the Kim Il Sung regime removed the legal basis for the "special inspection" threatened...
...White House is convinced that the November election will be a three-way battle in which core conservatives will determine the outcome (and so is now suddenly urging a continuation of the "Reagan-Bush partnership"). But because of what two G.O.P. Administrations have failed to do, Quayle's calculated rant rings hollow and deserves little more than a bemused shake of the head...