Word: raving
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...streaks across the Hollywood Hills toward the gigantic Tower Records store on Sunset Boulevard. Molly pops into the dashboard tape deck a cassette by her favorite Los Angeles band, the Rave-Ups. The glove compartment is so stuffed with tapes it won't close, and the back seat is littered with the plastic placentas of cassette containers. The bikers and pink-haired punkettes hanging out in front of Tower Records recognize Molly even before she parks, but the mode is cool: a slow nod, a thin smile and distance. In one corner of the store, David Lee Roth, the motor...
Over the past two years, actress Kelly McGillis has been receiving rave reviews--from her starring role in last year's hit thriller Witness to her recent portrayal of Nina in the National Repertory Theater's production of Anton Chekov's The Seagull. Yesterday in the Quincy House Junior Common Room, McGillis tried her hand at some critique, herself...
SEXISM IS MOST dangerous when it's subtle, when it is so deeply embedded in a culture that it becomes socially acceptable, as Playboy has. And so, you speak out, you yell, you rant and you rave when you recognize this subtle destruction. There is no other way to jar society out of its passive acceptance of the objectification of women, even though in this society it happens to be legal...
Although the Cambridge Public Works Commission flooded Cambridge Common five times, the baseball field never developed into a true skating rink. "A few people tried to skate on it, but it didn't get rave reviews," Alcorn said...
...Jamelle Holieway. The reversal Holieway represents could not be more dramatic if he had been switched to the position from defensive back. There have been black quarterbacks before, even in the South, but this one is being praised less for his legs and arm than for his head. Opponents rave about Holieway's ingenuity, his resourcefulness, his ability to lead and make sudden decisions, almost invariably the right ones. As patronizing as this would have once sounded, almost nobody is meaning it or taking it that...