Word: rants
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Whether or not Smith is in her 24-karat heaven, in life it sometimes seemed as if her physique, her creation, was all she had left. In 2004 she appeared at the American Music Awards, fingering her cleavage and slurring, "Like my body?" Some people called it an intoxicated rant, others a lost girl's plea for love. But is there a touch of professional pride in there too? This is my life's work, she seems to tell us. This what I made for you. I did a good job. Didn...
Michael Richards is a comedian, but there was nothing funny about his racist rant at a comedy club in West Hollywood two weeks...
...Americans today react to these different meanings and contexts? Far more interesting and unexpected than Richards’ rant are the reactions both of the crowd in the comedy club and of the hordes of sanctimonious newspaper columnists who have written about the outburst...
...seems to revel in them, and it raises the question of when purity of belief can shade into intolerance. Borat is the funniest movie of the year, but it's reasonable to ask whether our culture has become so anti-p.c. that a racist comic can defend his rant, as Richards did, as "go[ing] into character...
GLORIA ALLRED, attorney for two comedy-club patrons who endured the racist rant of actor Michael Richards (Seinfeld's Kramer) and want a face-to-face apology--and a retired judge to decide on compensation...