Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Godfather II. Coppola's film is recognized as socially-relevant because it treats real, albeit distant, issues, while in Woman, the anxiety and boredom of housewifery is close to home but often surrealistically overstated. Mabel waits for the schoolbus to return with her kids, pacing like an anxious speed freak, demanding passersby to give her the time, and chasing after them when they try to ignore her. At a party she gives for her own children, she stampedes them into a performance of Swan Lake and supervises their deaths in a finale accompanied by a thunderous orchestra. The only scene...
...because it couches the explanation George Vecsey gives for why this coal miner literally has a jar of moonshine in one hand and a copy of Das Kapital in the other. Vecsey had to get at this somehow, because Sizemore is no quintessential miner-mountaineer. Yet he is not freak show, either. How could this socialist grow out of these barren hills? It has something to do with being suddenly laid off for nine months during the fifties, having some time to think, and making a decision. The tragedy of Appalachia--which Vecsey seems to ignore--is that Dan Sizemore...
...What are you, some sort of eco-freak," broke in an incensed middle-aged man sporting a highball and a fur coat of his own. "Fur is warm. If it gets scarce, the market will raise the price to reduce the demand for it. Nobody's going to kill off all your damn wolves...
Hersh takes an almost jaunty view of his forays: "Being an investigative reporter is like being a freak. You're trying to get information other people don't want you to have. I don't make deals, I don't party and drink with sources, and I don't play a game of leaks. I read, I listen, I squirrel information. It's fun." One government official describes his technique as one of sheer persistence: "He wheedles, cajoles, pleads, threatens, asks a leading question, uses little tidbits as if he knew the whole story...
...Cocaine, which could be obtained legally, was widely used at the time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, who injects a "seven-per-cent solution" at the opening of The Sign of the Four, was supposedly a cocaine freak. A new book appropriately titled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution even has Holmes lured to Vienna, where Freud helps him kick the habit...