Word: rabid
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...David Cronenberg's films, things are always going bump! or aarrgh! or sploooosh! in the night. With They Came from Within, Rabid, The Brood and now Scanners, Cronenberg, 37, has joined the estimable company of John Carpenter and George Romero as a low-budget mahatma of the macabre. Like Carpenter's The Fog and Romero's Dawn of the Dead, Cronenberg's movies are hip parables of contemporary moral malaise, in which ordinary people are infected by a malignancy as invisible and pervasive as the most swinish flu virus. As his vision aged, like rancid fruit...
Ponder adds that Princeton's center has a stigma of being "radical" attached to it--although "because of this school's rabid conservatism, just about any political activity is deemed radical.'" Some white students, Ponder says, view the center as perpetuating prejudice. But that's usually the perception of those who don't care to find...
...dimension, there can be no disputing that, and over the years his friends and foes have praised or damned him in outsize terms. To the rabid, almost reverential followers of his University of Alabama football teams, Paul William ("Bear") Bryant is a nearly mythic figure, a man who embodies the traditional American values: dedication, hard work, honesty and, above all, success. To the frustrated fans of the legions of teams he has defeated, he is a relentlessly slippery recruiter, a ruthless win-at-all-costs tyrant. To some, he is the demigod of the autumn religion, the finest coach...
...Humanoids, a bunch of slobbering, obese rednecks surrounds one of the creatures and gorily beats it to death while the audience cheers them on. The racial overtones are frightening, particularly when you consider that the strongest market for this kind of movie is the South. The humanoids fulfill the rabid redneck vision of black men invading their towns and screwing their women. The movie is both a rapist's and a Klansman's fantasy. Many horror movies subtly encourage our xenophobia: the vampire film, for example, where the mysterious foreigner brings pestilence and death. (And preys on Our Women...
Indeed, the PBS marketing scheme emphasizes its subscribers' "upscale" incomes. "If you could advertise on public TV, would you?" PBS asked readers of Advertising Age. "You can't, of course. But you can reach these smart, rich and rabid public-TV fans through a powerful new advertising medium, the Dial...