Word: fanaticized
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A separate branch of vanity theater consists of hobbyists who are whacking plays together as a form of avocational therapy. Last season, off-Broadway saw the do-it-yourself dramas of a policeman, a dentist and a chiropractor, not to forget J. I. Rodale, a millionaire dietary fanatic who contends...
Presidential elections in Venezuela are almost a year away, but the campaign drums are already beating wildly for one unannounced candidate: Vice Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, 50, a leftist maverick who bossed the military junta that ruled for ten months after the 1958 ouster of Dictator Marcos Pé...
2. But the worst failing is the character of Lawrence himself. It's not that he is unhistorical (this may well be true): he is unbelievable. A curious amalgam of Joan of Arc and Alcibiades, this Lawrence passes through a succession of fatuous poses. He begins as a simple pacifist...
"Disease and insanity were the black angels on guard at my cradle," wrote Norway's greatest painter, Edvard Munch, recalling his tormented, sickly childhood. His mother died when he was four, and his physician father became a kind of fanatic, "with periods of religious anxiety which could reach the...
She was kidnaped in 1911 by an Italian fanatic and was missing for two years; then her left elbow was chipped by a stone-throwing Brazilian. In recent years she has resided safely and quietly in Paris, well cared for by doting Frenchmen, who used to value her at $10...