Word: rantingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failure to explore its observations about life in the Nixon era. As the years pass and his magazine becomes more successful, the publisher trades in his Levis for a three-piece suit and brings his golf clubs to work to practice his putting. But all this character does is rant at Thompson. Linson and Kaye seem afraid to get too serious, so instead of examining or satirizing the publisher's establishmentarianization, they pad his scenes with dumb lines about Thompson's eccentricities...
Every Monday through Friday, 52 weeks a year, fans in "38 states and half of Canada" switch on their radios at 7 p.m. and listen to a man rant about sports...
...erecting a new one to keep the world out, and McDonough provides this desperate vitality. When he repents his first act drunkenness (and his entrance in a garbage can, surely an inspired bit of dramatic symbolism) with typical quixotic fervor, the futility becomes only more apparent. He can rant and rave but never escape the curse...
...Iranian official thought the action might quiet American tempers and "help the situation as a whole." Certainly it's some relief to be spared the nightly sight of camera-conscious Tehran mobs who seem to have nothing else to do but shake their fists on cue and rant against America. In a sense, what is missing is not news but staged photo opportunities. Early in the Iranian crisis, John Chancellor of NBC had worried about getting those demonstrators off TV, fearing a "possible wave of jingoism" in this country, but it never surfaced. Now that Iranian demonstrators have...