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...Oklahoma City an inevitable descent into violence of the American culture wars? Does it mean that critical mass has been reached in the struggle between Newly Feminized America (as represented by Bill Clinton and his Administration) and the Nut-Case Phallocrats (Newt Gingrich, the National Rifle Association and rant radio in unholy collusion...
...bitter truth--that answers a question unasked since the dawn of literature: What is a mortgage bond? The answer in Bombardiers (Random House; 319 pages; $22) seems to be: That which the selling of makes your teeth itch. The first sentence of Po Bronson's desperate, funny, booklong rant at bucket-shop marketing of financial chaos neatly pelletizes his entire volume: "It was a filthy profession, but the money was addicting, and one addiction led to another, and they were all going to hell...
Republicans rant about personal responsibility and the damaging effects of the welfare state, but their solution is to create an army of low skilled labor for workfare and minimum wage dead end jobs. Those who would rather raise their children, receive job training or cannot find jobs will be forced to rely on private charities, and more of the poor may end up on the street. While the Republicans can find no money for job training for welfare recipients, they are willing to increase the bloated Pentagon budget. Nevertheless, they are opposed to foreign intervention, even on a small scale...
This was drama as rant, an explosion of bad manners, a declaration of war against an empire in twilight. The acid tone, at once comic and desperate, sustained Osborne throughout a volatile career as playwright, film writer (Tom Jones) and memoirist (A Better Class of Person). More important, it stoked a ferment in a then sleepy popular culture. Anger's curdling inflections and class animosities were echoed in the plays of Joe Orton and Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a direct descendant), in Dennis Potter's savage TV scripts and in a generation of performers, from...
...Village poetry slam. But that's one admirably experimental failure on a largely successful album. Pearl Jam's great talent is the ability to meld melody and power: the music is sweet and dangerous. On Corduroy, the album's best song, lead singer Eddie Vedder delivers an impassioned antimedia rant backed up by scathing guitars -- but the melody is pretty and whistleable, and you can't forget...