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Word: rabidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...okay. Looming into the hazy atmosphere of our car was a square-jawed Bad Ass State Cop: sunglasses on (it was night), blue Mounty hat, pearly sledgehammer teeth, and a rabid German Shepard at his side screaming "KILL KILL KILL" at the top of its canine lungs...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: GONZO WEEKEND | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...around for international moneymen to cough up the money for his ultimate production--an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear--he sketched and painted scenes, a practice called "storyboarding." Though Kurosawa's eyesight is failing, he still managed to create dramatically posed illustrations that assault the eyes like a rabid ronin...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Of Max Headroom and Kurosawa | 10/25/1986 | See Source »

...when the cause is just, Reagan has offered no such help to South African Blacks. Half lame duck, half rabid dog, Reagan has backed into a corner, all alone in his stance for "non-punitive" measures against the Pretoria goverment...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Bullets and Bonzo | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

...unsettling plots rarely work on film, perhaps because occult scenarios are best played in the Skull Cinema. On a real screen his lethally gifted children often turn out to be amateurish performers; the floodlighted hotel is about as frightening as the set of a Fred Astaire musical; and the rabid Saint Bernard seems only a benign cartoon of the Hound of the Baskervilles. King professes to be satisfied with many of the movie adaptations, except for The Shining ("Stanley Kubrick's stated purpose was to make a horror picture, and I don't think he understood the genre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...Fred Rated, the wild-and-crazy huckster who has appeared in some 800 commercials for the Federated Group, a Los Angeles-based electronics chain. In Stevens' wacky TV career, he has impersonated The Honeymooners' Ralph Kramden and Miami Vice's Sonny Crockett, played a man who gets attacked by rabid frogs and even starred as a Santa Claus who turns into a werewolf. His public appearances at Federated stores attract hundreds of autograph seekers. Most important, since his TV debut in 1982, Federated's sales have surged 80%, and the 16-year-old company has grown from 15 outlets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, a Gag From Our Sponsor | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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