Word: rants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conventional story. The kind of wildly imaginative plotline that characterized his earlier and best-known satirical novels (such as the absurd, apocalyptic masterpiece, Cat's Cradle makes no appearance here. Fimequake is not so much wildly imaginative as wildly cantankerous, not so much a great read as a great rant...
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Timequake is the genuine celebration of life going on beneath the rant and beyond the darkly comic bitterness. Early in the book, Vonnegut quite earnestly exhorts everyone to appreciate the sublime moments of beauty that pass unnoticed. He recalls his Uncle Alex, a Harvard-educated insurance salesman who made a point of noting such moments by saying: "This is nice. If this isn't nice, what is?" It is this uncharacteristic warmth, emerging cautiously from beneath the book's crusty exterior, which ultimately makes reading Timequake a rewarding experience...
Glazer's video for Jamiroquai is less flashy but nonetheless eye catching. The band is mostly unknown in the States; its current album, Traveling Without Moving, is a mere echo of stronger, tighter, better American R. and B. from the '70s. Virtual Insanity, a rant against technology that draws heavily, if not entirely successfully, on Stevie Wonder for musical inspiration, is the only truly catchy song on the album. In the video we see Jamiroquai's singer, Jay Kay, standing alone in a mostly empty room. The floor seems to move as he dances, sings and poses; furniture appears...
...meet Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) in mid-rant, and our first impression is of a typical New York City cabbie of the old, or native-born, variety, full of mis- and disinformation delivered in a rush that permits no quibbling interruption. Assassination plots both current and historical, a unique slant on the militia movement, even (heaven help us!) inside dope on the Vatican's plans for world domination--the man's a full-service paranoid...
Judge James Rant of England argued the opposite...