Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compare. First, the obvious similarities. They both take place in outer space. They both feature futuristic technology and fascinating aliens. Both are known for their famous protagonists and infamous villians. And both command the loyalties of hordes of rabid fans...
...haven't we been reminded lately that Junior is everyone's responsibility to some extent? As a parent--and a rabid First Amendment advocate--I can't see what harm it would do to make it harder for Junior to get the bloodier stuff. That said, though, Grossman's child-zombie scenario sounds too far-fetched. "We can't make social policy based on the statistical aberrations of a handful of abnormal kids," observes Henry Jenkins, director of comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jenkins, who co-edited a book, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat, that examines...
...unison, as if the show was just a festive jukebox of favorite Ani recordings, never mind DiFranco's efforts to flex her artistry outside of the studio mold. In response to altered melodies and new syncopations, they quickly adjusted their howlings and yowled on. It seemed at least one rabid fan cried. "I love you, Ani" or "Ani, you're beautiful" at every pause in the two-hour set and, a handful of times, in the middle of a sparser, slower song. More jarring were comments I heard about how DiFranco looked "good enough to eat" or requests from...
...unison, as if the show was just a festive jukebox of favorite Ani recordings, never mind DiFranco's efforts to flex her artistry outside of the studio mold. In response to altered melodies and new syncopations, they quickly adjusted their howlings and yowled on. It seemed at least one rabid fan cried, "I love you, Ani" or "Ani, you're beautiful" at every pause in the two-hour set and, a handful of times, in the middle of a sparser, slower song. More jarring were comments I heard about how DiFranco looked "good enough to eat" or requests from...
...others. If we didn't need national reconciliation, I would not be scared of a trial. We have to be cautious to avoid any panic among leaders of the Khmer Rouge." Hun Sen fears that a large-scale trial would disturb the balance he has achieved, one that has rabid guerrillas, royalists and former communists from his own party in check under his stringent authority. "For the first time in 30 years," he says, "Cambodia is at peace." U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright feels otherwise about a trial: "We think it is the only way to bring reconciliation...