Word: rant
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...disagrees, and he has every right to patronize stores in Central Square if he chooses. However, his individual opinion about what he perceives to be a diminishing grade of one-on-one customer service in the world-at-large was only written to deliver a highly personal, vindictive rant, apparently as revenge for a specific incident. Accordingly, his opinion lacks any redeeming value for your readers-at-large...
...BRISTLE-JAWED COVER PICTURE OF Gingrich reminded me of an advertising jingle that adorned the country's roadsides about 50 years ago: Does your husband misbehave Grunt and grumble, rant and rave Shoot the brute some Burma Shave It's worth a try. JOHN C. HARRIS Fulton, Missouri...
...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...