Word: crazier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first half was a Picasso, then the second half was more like an Andy Warhol. Things were a little wilder and crazier, but still pretty darn good...
...talk-show craze get any crazier? America's Talking, an NBC-owned cable channel starting this fall, has launched a nationwide talent contest. First prize: a contract to be host of your own talk show for a year...
...climbing in a 10th-story window. The title refers to the wackiest moment, an imagined new scene for Death of a Salesman, which the precocious younger son envisions adapting as a perky Broadway musical. Arthur Miller, after all, came from the neighborhood, and the boy's parents seem crazier than Miller's Lomans. What better escape for both households than song and dance? If neither as funny nor as painful as it could be, this Picnic is still a satisfying meal. -- W.A.H...
...makes the villagers' craziness seem crazier still and, frighteningly enough, the only appropriate behavior. The inhumanity of the war is told here in a wholly human way, in vague and discontinuous snatches of dialogue. These qualities can make for difficult reading; the same half-imagined memories are told at various points by various people, each interrupting themselves and each other within the same sentence. This method can at first be irritating and even boring; the many plots are difficult to sort out and keep track of. But Cela's sympathetic and sometimes outrageous humor give these ramblings coherence...
...CRAZIEST YEAR IN PERSONAL COMPUTING HAS got even crazier. Compaq, which set off a fierce price-cutting war this summer when it slashed its PC prices one-third, has trimmed the tags on some models an additional 32%, bringing the cost of its cheapest desktop machine to below $800 -- a fraction of what customers were paying for PCs with a lot less memory and power just a few years...