Word: mads
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That did it. When word leaked Thursday that McCain had opened the door a sliver, the entire city started a mad round of speculation. Anxious to fan the flames were House Republicans who have been trying to put together a Bush-McCain ticket since the end of the GOP primaries. The Arizona senator is the most popular Republican in the country and vulnerable House members have the fistful of polls to prove it. If McCain goes on the ticket they think they'll be able to keep control of the House...
...American viewing public is hugely capricious. Here we are, going on and on about how much we love "reality" programming, sending CBS's ratings into the stratosphere. We're mad about "Survivor," we'll watch "Big Brother" if there's nothing better on, and it's come to my attention that some people also actually watch "Cops." But that love, while powerful, is unpredictable...
...course, Mad used to do the same thing by publishing lyrics with the tag "Sung to the tune of..." But be honest: Were you aware that Mad still exists? Satire in print may have its problems--Spy folded in 1998--but irony online seems safe as long as obsessive jokesters have modems. "Most of America doesn't read," says Aboud. "But they do like glowing pictures...
...wonder so many American artists have written, sung, painted and even gone round the bend, gone mad, in the name of rivers. In his overboard essay on Huck and Jim, Leslie Fiedler wrote that the river supports "the American dream of isolation afloat." Out of that isolation in motion comes every inspiration, from contemplation (Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers") to adventure (Hemingway's stories) to despair. The poet John Berryman looked down into the Mississippi and jumped to his death. The river is expanse, but it is also loneliness; Huck finds a loving relationship with...
...oblivious Muggles. Back at Hogwarts, the students learn that something called the Triwizard Tournament will take place during the school year, involving competitors from two other magic-training establishments, Beauxbatons Academy and Durmstrang Institute. (Guess, from their names, where those schools are located.) New characters include Alastor (Mad-Eye) Moody, the latest in the series of professors of Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Rita Skeeter, a manipulative reporter for the wizard paper the Daily Prophet...