Word: rant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...authors discuss every aspect of working life, from what to wear on job interviews (piercings are a faux pas, as are open-toe shoes) to how to deal with berserk telephone calls ("Let the angry caller rant for a minute or two") to how to fire an employee ("Get straight to the point when the person sits down in your office"). The Posts even offer guidelines for office gossip, which the authors believe is inevitable ("You could wind up covered in mud if you dish dirt about the wrong person"). The Posts also deal with private problems, like what...
...made an appearance, performed in a more or less by-the-book fashion. The majority of the songs played, though, were vastly different than their album counterparts. Tricky performed with a frightening intensity, crouched over the microphone, jerking his head back and forth. "For Real," an anti-record company rant from Juxtapose, went on for over ten minutes, much of which was Tricky chanting "You watch too many films/Films are for real" in his distinctive rasp and improvising lyrics. "You," in which he repeated the line "tear out my eyes," was performed in a similar style. Rap covers "Bad Dream...
Cherlyndra Wells, 21, was just the kind of welfare recipient who sets critics of welfare programs off on a rant. A single mother of four from Dallas, she left school in the ninth grade and started having children. Rather than work or marry a man who did, she relied on welfare, food stamps and Medicaid. The tough 1996 welfare-reform law spelled out in clear terms what it wanted Wells and others like her to do in the future...
...more grateful to the tutors, administrators, dining hall staff, nightwatchpeople and "chief and coach" who have made my life so lovely. Having always enjoyed the opportunity to find a cup of coffee late at night and play with a tutor's young child and seemingly endless chances to rant with a brilliant future law-school professor about the strange journalistic mantra of meta-reportage, perhaps I protest too much about Harvard's pampering...
...moms have gone to at least one Roots show; even vaster multitudes lovingly remember Run DMC shows; Goodie Mob's originality on stage is no secret; supposedly Ice Cube can move crowds; Common and Black Star seem to be starting a buzz; and, almost unanimously, heads across the planet rant and rave about KRS-ONE's act as simply the illest of all time...