Word: rabidness
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Like the vampires, ghouls, rabid dogs and other monsters that populate his fiction, Stephen King seems practically unstoppable. New novels appear with almost supernatural speed, take a choke hold on the best-seller lists, and are transformed into movies that typically make a quick blitz at the box office before settling into a long, lucrative life on the video shelves. For an impressive array of filmmakers, from Brian De Palma to Rob Reiner, King has made an ideal collaborator: he provides the sprawling, imaginative raw material; they bring the cinematic compression and sometimes (as in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining...
...mere printed word. At last Thursday's rally in the MAC quadrangle three men marched up to the microphone and began to conduct what appeared to be their own version of a stand-up misogynistic comedy routine. Talking gleefully about their experiences at a pro-choice rally with "rabid feminists," the trio managed to remain at the microphone for about 30 seconds before hisses from the crowd and one woman's marching up to the microphone to verbalize her own disapproval made them decide that perhaps they should make a quick exit...
...them to come to the events, plenty of chances for them to listen to the speakers and panelists and to question them. Yet they had remained silent until the last possible moment, and when they did choose to speak, it wasn't even about sexual violence, but about "rabid feminists" and prochoice rallies. For them, at least, Take Back the Night was nothing if not partisan...
After the first speech, the forum was interrupted by three men who said that they had "attended a prochoice rally with rabid feminists" earlier on during the day. One organizers said she thought the men were from the conservative magazine Peninsula...
...That kind of rabid reaction does not do thetricks," says former Student Faculty AdvisoryCommittee member Lawrence DiCara '71. "Some feltthat you had to engage in that type of violentactivity...