Word: rabidity
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Disney and ABC got rid of a nuisance, but Grant may be the real winner. When he returns to New York radio, as he surely will, he can blame the p.c. media for his firing. The rabid sorehead will be a professional martyr...
...could tell the tensions were high last night when a rabid St. Lawrence fan ripped down a colorful "Go Harvard" sign and tore part of it off. The sign was replaced by deservedly upset members of the Harvard contingent; yet after suffering a setback, it shone bright as ever...
...taken bigger risks tackling controversial racial issues. In a sketch that took a sharp knife to the culture of victimhood, Bryan Callen portrayed a slacker who felt beaten up by the world because he was one-eighth black. Callen, as white as Matthew Perry, unleashed a rabid tirade about the injustices he suffered because of his "appearance." More irreverent still was a send-up of Mad About You titled Mad About Jew, which imagined Louis Farrakhan married to Whoopi Goldberg, here a publicist for Comic Relief...
...down period with the Dolphins in the late '80s, only to rebuild them into a perennial play-off team. This time around, though, Shula had two things working against him: the ascendancy of new Miami Heat basketball coach Pat Riley, who has turned the N.B.A. team around, and the rabid nature of sports talk radio, which has been feeding the frenzy against Shula and for Johnson. When Shula's resignation was announced during halftime of a Heat game on Thursday night, the fans actually cheered. "After all he's done," said his friend, San Diego general manager Bobby Beathard...
Perhaps one of these inspirational chats will launch the career of a budding politician (moderate to rabid Republican, we're guessing). But what usually comes across is the falseness, not of the contestants forced to reach for cheerful profundity, but of the format. Says humorist Harry Shearer, host of the syndicated weekly radio treasure Le Show and an avid trawler in the backwaters of pop culture: "I believe that if the serious guys on television had to discuss current affairs the way Miss America contestants do--gussied up in evening wear while an orchestra plays Isn't She Lovely...