Word: crackbrainedness
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Back in CNN's infancy, when he was dismissed as crackbrained and soon to be bankrupt, Ted Turner sensed the wonders to come. "I am the right man in the right place at the right time," he said. "Not me alone, but all the people who think the world can...
It all began when a bunch of jocks in Hawaii fell to arguing about which was the tougher sport, biking, running or swimming. Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race...
Joseph Mitchell, a North Carolinian, once wrote a story called Hit on the Head with a Cow. The story was not so much about being hit on the head with a cow-although he had as a boy been felled by a beef that slipped its hoist as he prepared...
The scene is a poor, bedraggled Dublin district during the doomed 1916 Easter Week Rebellion. O'Casey had no illusions about that sadly absurdist affray. Commandant Jack Clitheroe (Clive Geraghty) of the Irish Citizen Army is a crackbrained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not...
Amarcord also has a strong political subcurrent, and like some other recent movies from Italy (Visconti's The Damned, Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem and The Conformist), it considers the source and meaning of European fascism. But Amarcord never becomes preoccupied with the phenomenon. Fellini works...