Word: rants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Petrarch's rant against the papal court at Avignon in the 14th century sounds like a hyperbolic inventory of life in certain neighborhoods of the late 20th century: "This is a sewer to which all the filths of the universe come to be reunited. Here people despise God, they adore money, they trample underfoot both human laws and divine law. Everything here breathes falsehood: the air, the earth, the houses, and above all, the bedrooms...
...black vs. white. Actors love Mob movies because, now that the western is dead, the genre gives them one last chance to strut their maleness in a traditional setting. They can act like cowboys without having to ride a horse. And, as avatars of the Method, they get to rant in words James Dean never spoke onscreen. Mandatory Mob-movie dialogue: "Shut the f up!" "No, you shut...
Publishing in conservative journals like Nash Sovremennik (Our Contemporary) ; and Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard), ideologists for the Russian renewal movement rant against "Russophobia" and what they view as a deliberate campaign by the "ultra-left press" and "Zionists." They have called for an end to subsidies paid out of the national budget to other republics and for the creation of separate government agencies, public organizations and a television network to serve only Russia -- all of which the other 14 republics already enjoy. Valentin Rasputin, a nationalist writer known for his portrayals of Russian rural life, has even suggested that Russia...
Ideologically, the President seemed back in the political center he inhabited proudly before expediency drove him to embrace Reaganism. All the hard-right touches were gone: not one rant against abortion, nary a plea for school prayer. Just a vision of a society where "the greatest gift is helping others...