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Word: rabidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tells a familiar story; it wants to teach us what we already know. The movie's uniqueness is in its tone. Stone plays director as if he were at a cathedral organ with all the stops out. Each scene, whether it means to elegize or horrify, is unrelenting, unmodulated, rabid with its own righteousness. And yet, frequently, the crazy machine works because of its voluptuous imagery. When Ron is wounded in Viet Nam, he collapses backward, and from his mouth a stream of blood spurts like the fountain of lost youth. The hospital sequence is an insider's tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...rabid Ec 10 hater. In fact if the course is taken with a healthy skepticism, I think it can be one of the most valuable offerings at Harvard. But, given that it is the only exposure of many Harvard students to economics, it has an added responsibility to present fairly all sides of the issues with which it deals...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: A Perversion of Justice | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...show that had flopped in its last tryout, The Pay-Raise Follies enjoyed a remarkably rapid revival. There was House Speaker Tom Foley last week, a bipartisan cast gathered around him, calling earnestly for more money. Here again came consumer advocate Ralph Nader, stirring up rabid radio talk-show hosts to bash Capitol Hill for insatiable greed. George Bush, once more standing in the wings, sent his best wishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give A Little, Get a Little | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...been the passage of Ronald Ann into this Outland. The first strip showed her walking through a door, and all the episodes since have retold that event in a new way. Last Sunday the mouse and the rat kidnapped Ronald Ann in between a gang war and a rabid alleycat. Breathed's attempt to show us the variation possible in any given even is certainly an attempt to deliver modern art to the comic pages...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

Most settlers realize that Jewish vigilantism makes for bad public relations at the least, but some Israelis fear the extremists have something more drastic in mind. As they see it, the situation will ultimately deteriorate into a full-scale war, what the more rabid call the "Big Bang," enabling Israel to expel the West Bank's 980,000 Arabs. Explains Domb: "Killing Arabs doesn't help our cause. That's why we talk about expulsions. It's more humane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Fighting Fire with Fire | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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