Word: rants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...release is lower, which helps explain why people's tempers shorten during a hard day. Scientists are not only discovering where anger comes from; they are also exposing myths about how best to handle it. Popular wisdom argues for "letting it all hang out" and having a good cathartic rant. But Goleman cites studies showing that dwelling on anger actually increases its power; the body needs a chance to process the adrenaline through exercise, relaxation techniques, a well-timed intervention or even the old admonition to count...
...spend the rest of the decade in jail. "You threw it away," Judge Fred Suria told the two-term Democrat today after sentencing him to five years for having sex with an underage campaign worker and for soliciting child pornography. Reynolds had just completed a 40-minute courtroom rant in which he blamed racism and the media for his downfall. Replied Suria: "This case is not about race. This case is not about politics...
...witnesses he hopes will attest to Fuhrman's alleged racism and his use of the N word, which Fuhrman denied on the stand; Shapiro and Cochran feel two or three will suffice. Kathleen Bell, who figured so prominently in the defense's plans with her recollection of Fuhrman's rant about "niggers gathered together and killed,'' is at best a problem witness. Pellicano reportedly has gathered evidence that she is lying, and Bell has written a letter to Judge Lance Ito stating that she believes O.J. is guilty and does not want to take the stand...
...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...