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...account of a terribly unnatural childbirth. But the other three, though sporadically gruesome, come without King's customary trimmings. Gone are varieties of telekinesis (Carrie, Firestarter) and precognition (The Shining, The Dead Zone). There are no vampires ('Salem's Lot), apocalyptic plagues (The Stand) or satanically rabid Saint Bernards (Cujo). The only reader likely to find these long tales truly frightening is an old-fashioned book lover: they are spooky examples of what can be called postliterate prose...
These Badgers are rabid...
...that with any regularity seeks to change wean for the better. But maybe not, too, because the same hatreds that have corrupted the rest of the world have corrupted religion in so many places--in this country, for instance, where some of the largest groups of Christians have become rabid fans of the New Right. Maybe through the example of a few great once--a Gandhi or a King, say. They transformed people; they filled the oppressed with dignity, and the oppressor with shame, and they, sometimes, won their battles. But great men often carry their magic with them...
DIED. James Curran Davis, 86, eight-time Georgia Congressman (1947-1963) and rabid segregationist who once proclaimed, "The white people of the South are not going to school with blacks, eat with them or live with them"; in Atlanta...
...dogs or people. But many people in Britain are as silly about her as about their animals. Her ten-part series, Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way, was the BBC's surprise hit of 1980, so popular that it has been repeated twice since for 4 million nearly rabid viewers. Now being syndicated on 78 stations throughout the U.S., it should prove equally irresistible to millions of Americans, who will discover in Woodhouse, 71, the most original-and unintentionally funny-female TV personality since Julia Child...