Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watched the major networks, you received one after another tantalizing, juicy piece of the apocalypse on your dinner plate. Or if you swallowed the articles of what can only charitably be called drivel which Alexander Cockburn published in The Village Voice, you ought to be a rabid anti-Semite. Only a few Martin Peretz, William Safire and Norman Podhoretz among them had the intelligence to announce that the Americans were being snarled in lies. Even today, when the miasma of Sabra and Shatila lingers heavily, few thoughtful people would claim to know what happened--or, for that matter, what...
...tales blur the line between the superrealistic and the gothic. In "The Gift Horse's Mouth" by R.E. Smith, a rancher's wife has to cut off the head of a dead, possibly rabid mare that had bitten her daughter. In Ian MacMillan's "Proud Monster-Sketches," prisoners of the Nazis bury their own dead: "Returning to the edge of the pit, staggering with exhaustion and aching with hunger, Kratko barely notices that they walk on the girl's back...
...does write horror fiction. He writes damned good horror fiction. Rabid dogs, haunted hotels, telekinetic teenagers, and other assorted bogeymen constitute the bizarre realm in which King operates. But Stephen King writes best-selling horror fiction, and that, to many, makes him a schlock writer...
...interlude could, of course, be passed off as the rabid ranting of man frustrated by the knowledge that, no matter how hard he tries, he cannot win. With only two weeks before the election. Sen stands a whopping 40 points behind the former--and most fellow likely next-governor; Michael S. Dukakis. Even most fellow Republicans have privately written him off. Yet while his targeting of the media seems off base, his observation that style has prevailed over substance in this election rings disturbingly true...
...profiles of the cats. Here, Lloyd Webber's bent for the derivative is something of a help. He moves easily from rock to swing to ballad to full-throated hymnal invocation. That he overpowers as much as he underscores may be due to the Winter Garden's rabid amplification...