Word: rabid
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...knew at the time was that I had to make sure rabid scoop-hungry journalists could not could not jump the fence and tear the paper enough to see what was beneath it. The night passed without incident, but it seemed like one of the longest nights of my life. For a while I tried to guess which name it was based on the length of the paper. I thought for sure it was Vilsack and then Gephardt, because the paper seemed to be low enough to cover a lower-case P. I never guessed Edwards. I was too tired...
...Harry Thomason's new documentary, The Hunting of the President--an unabashedly partisan account of the Whitewater prosecution (or "persecution," as Clinton called it, perhaps not inadvertently). "Starr was the instrument of a grand design," the President said, launching a 30-minute disquisition into the historical roots of the rabid partisanship that marked his time in office. "He did what he was hired to do ... Hillary was hooted and derided for calling it a vast right-wing conspiracy. I joked with her afterwards, 'I don't know about the conspiracy word. A conspiracy is normally secret. This is wide open...
After Harvard announced its new president, McCarthy declared that his state would be glad to get rid of a “rabid anti anti-Communist” such as Pusey...
...Written by first-time author Li Cunxin, Dancer is a poor-boy-makes-good memoir populated by a strange cast of historical figures. Chief among them is the rabid Jiang Qing, Mao's infamous wife, who was a fierce proponent of the Great Helmsman's postulate that "There is in fact no such thing as art ... detached from or independent of politics." To Madame Mao, all presentation was propaganda; she drafted armies of performers to edify the masses through highly politicized operas and films, such as the epic revolutionary musical The East is Red. She also revived the once outlawed...
...anyone with the stomach for top-quality horror. Like all the best of its genre, "Gyo" gets at larger ideas, like humans becoming slaves to their machines, while also supplying plenty of outrageous gore and freaky jolts. Fans of the films of David Cronenberg, such as "The Fly" and "Rabid," with their themes of bodily corruption, will see his influence on Ito's work. His brilliant drawings only become more outrageous as the story goes on, searing your brain with fantastically detailed moments of gut-puking carnage and nightmarish surreality. At one point Tadashi encounters a circus taken over...