Word: rabid
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Although the man who says he is my father is not as rabid in his views as the others in this family, he always votes Republican. He admits, smilingly, to voting for Reagan both times...
...Farrakhan is one person, one black person. Why is it that no black person seems to be rabid about Meir Kahane? Farrakhan is rejected by a lot of black people who wouldn't go near that man. It's not an equal standard -- one black person is all black people...
...Potter celebration reaches its climax: The Singing Detective, his 1986 masterpiece about a hospitalized writer, has begun a six-week run in Manhattan's Public Theater movie house. When this 6-hr. 42-min. serial was broadcast on PBS earlier this year, it attracted a rabid cult following, and New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called it "one of the wittiest, wordiest, singingest-dancingest, most ambitious, freshest, most serious, least solemn movies of the year." Now Detective, handsomely directed by Jon Amiel, is on the big screen where it belongs -- and where it looks marvelous...
Welcome to Fantasy Play-by-Play. "Ever since the first baseball broadcast, fans have said, 'That bum doesn't know what he's talking about. I can do better than that,' " says Fantasy founder Fred Greene, 33, a rabid A's fan who last season brought his dream to life in a box overlooking first base at the Oakland Coliseum. For $50, any Tom, Dick or would-be Harry Caray can announce a full inning of baseball with all the electronic panoply of a network broadcast booth. And this year for the first time -- at a premium...
Thus it is with the gifted Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg. Images of corporal corruption -- of malefic birth and voracious organs -- stalk his They Came from Within, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners and Videodrome. Heads explode, and monsters issue from the wombs of women. In Cronenberg's masterwork, The Fly, one man wages a heroic, doomed struggle against physical and moral degeneration; his body has a twisted mind of its own. The catalog of punishments seems medieval -- Savonarola meets Bosch -- even as it taps baby boomers' fears of decaying vitality and eviscerated dreams. For Cronenberg the body is a haunted house whose...