Word: ranted
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Last year, the number one movie at the domestic box office over the Thanksgiving holiday was The Cat in the Hat. This year, it was another really, really bad movie, National Treasure. This is not a jumping-off point for some kind of rant about how bad American movies are. Holiday movies are supposed to be bad. To put it nicely, they should be diverting, fun and have some sort of happy or optimistic ending. One shouldn’t be required to think too much after eating a pound of turkey and enduring the blank stares of despondent family...
After Cornell’s first goal and the ensuing “It’s all your fault” rant, one Big Red fan passed around a phone number he claimed to be for Grumet-Morris’s mother. As copies of the number floated around the rink, fans began chanting the number in unison...
...student about the Harvard Corporation and you’ll get one of two responses. Said student may act bewildered and confused. Alternatively, she migh hop on the nearest soapbox and rant. What does the Corporation actually...
That could be just a fogey's rant, mooning about the old days and ways. Viewers who resist the coming posthuman form of filmmaking may be as obsolete as the movies they loved. Get used to it, people: these new techniques will weave our deepest dreams into a cinematic coat of many colors. Thing is, it'll be worn by a cyborg...
...voice their views. The extremists, meanwhile, feel no such constraints. The day before an attack by al-Qaeda militants on a compound in Khobar in late May that killed 22 people, the imam at the mosque in Medina dismissed terrorism as a "summer cloud" before ending with a typical rant against the Jews: "O vanquisher of the infidels, defeat them, shake them up, destroy them!" The failure of the Saudis to rein in such elements could prove disastrous were the clerics ever to decide to incite their followers to rise up against the regime--which bin Laden has called...