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...then Reed lets loose his anger with songs about a rapist, a masochist, a drunkard and a man going insane. Reed paints the latter two characters as victims of society. His wrath for the rapist, though, knows no end The subject of "The Gun" is a "dirty animal" who won't hesitate to "blow your brains out" to satisfy his urges. Even more frightening and intense are the almost unbearable lyrics of the album's title...
Instead, the unions directed their wrath toward the European Community, which last week issued an important rebuff to a Belgian plan to restructure the nation's archaic steel industry at a cost of $1.1 billion and 5,000 lost jobs. Two major trade unions in Wallonia promptly began a weeklong series of strikes and demonstrations...
...arguing for judicial passivism in the name of democracy is nothing new; scholars have done it for generations, raising their voices in particular in the aftermath of the liberal activist Court of Chief Justice Earl Warren--which provoked the wrath of conservatives by striking down legislation with regularity during the 1950s and 1960s. What makes Ely's approach unique is that he spotlights a small area in which he argues judges must exert their authority. As a result, he likes to call himself "a selective activist...
...Turner scores Harvard's final goal of the night at 8:17 of the third period, and now Eliot suffers the Harvard fans wrath, as tennis balls, beer cans and, that's right, a sieve pelt the Big Red net. The Cornell netminder takes a hike out of the crease, and, since they had been forewarned, the Harvard fans take a trip to the penalty box. The minutes for "roughing", you might say. In any case, the scoreboard shows a two minute penalty on Harvard's number zero, and Crimson defenseman Scott Sangster sits out the penalty, as the referee...
When the existence of Richard Nixon's self-destructive, secret taping system was dramatically revealed early one afternoon at the Senate Watergate hearings in July 1973, Democrats rose in righteous wrath to assail the President. "It's an outrage," fumed House Speaker Carl Albert. "It's so fantastic as to be almost beyond belief," stormed AFL-CIO President George Meany. "A violation of privacy," snapped Nixon's defeated 1972 election opponent, George McGovern. And when Nixon's defenders suggested that he was only doing what John F. Kennedy had quietly practiced, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger...