Word: rabidity
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Most troubling, though, is a glut of new Internet shares saturating the market, creating a supply overhang that could last through the summer. This is an entirely new situation for Net investors. In the past few years they have had little choice but to bid against rabid techies for the same handful of precious stocks, driving prices through the roof. Wall Street reacted as expected: by underwriting stock deals for every dot com in sight. A flood of new shares hit the market this year, and now the scarcity premium on Net stocks is gone...
Marilyn's tabloid appeal is infinite but ultimately beside the point. Whatever destroyed her--be it Hollywood economics or rabid sexism or her own tormented psyche--pales beside the delight she continues to provide. At her peak, Marilyn was very much like Coca-Cola or Levi's--she was something wonderfully and irrepressibly American...
...right. We know that critics aren't human. And those rabid fans who sneaked into screenings last week, then peppered the Internet with their indifference, are not Kevin and Katelyn Moviegoer. But the early murmur of unrest dented The Phantom Menace's doctrine of infallibility. Recall that last year's highly hyped, sure-hit fantasy adventure--Godzilla--was out-grossed at the North American box office by such modestly budgeted frippery as There's Something About Mary, The Waterboy and Rush Hour...
...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...
...with activity, causing an overload on AOL which blocked out many customers. Moviephone (infamous for their feature-film presentation delay tactics) stayed impossible to contact until late into the evening. After the weeks of speculation, of endlessly replaying movie trailers, of hunting out "insider" Internet sites and comparing notes, rabid fans of the most successful movie series ever took that final step towards the attainment of their very own Holy Grail. Tickets to "Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace" had at last gone on sale...