Word: fanaticized
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The Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah rank high on any list of the world's most desolate places, but they have a special fascination for a special kind of fanatic: the speed demon. This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h...
Nonetheless, in Scenarist James Poe's gritty adaptation of the cold war thriller by Mark Rascovich, Bedford appears to be powered by superpatriotism. Captain Richard Widmark is a right-wing fanatic whose hot head simmers harmlessly ("It's a lot of work being a mean bastard") until his...
As further discrediting evidence, the defense introduced a paperback book found on Daniels' body, Meyer Levin's The Fanatic. And as a clincher, Defense Attorney Vaughan Hill Robison waved the dead seminarian's maroon undershorts in the courtroom: they looked red and, he said, "smell of urine...
What nobody will question is that Nazi SS men were often savage sadists, that Jewish survivors of Buchenwald endured incredible torments, and that a bunch of high-ranking political hostages bottled up in a Bavarian castle keep and threatened with execution would try very hard to escape their German jailers...
LANGUAGE ON VACATION, by Dmitri A. Borgmann. The author is a word fanatic of the most ingenious order, producing a compendium of resolutely useless, teasingly fascinating information about anagrams, antigrams, palindromes. How many people can look at Satan and see Santa?