Word: looney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mansion for mid-afternoon champagne. He watches her youthful exuberance and realizes that he's too old to love. His weakness is dramatized in a confrontation scene with his pathological daughter in which she demands more money and chides him for neglecting his wife, who has been in the looney bin for twenty-three years. Somewhere in the course of the day, Doris is fired...
...technical subtleties of the field call for long experience, and the partners have it. Both Hanna, 50, who was born in New Mexico and raised in Los Angeles, and Barbera, 47, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, had drifted among the big-time animation mills-Terry Toons, Looney Toons, Merry Melodies-before they came together at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1937. There they created the most exciting mano a mano in the history of film cartoons-matchless Tom and Jerry. For 18 years they manipulated the big cat and the little mouse for MGM's critical and financial...
...Donnelly lucky-seven countdown, it turned out that Bacon wrote not only Shakespeare, but all of Marlowe, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Montaigne's Essays. The Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford boom was drummed up in 1920 by a Gateshead schoolmaster named J. Thomas Looney, a proper foil for the Baconian camp's George M. Battey. The fact that De Vere died in 1604, and The Tempest, for example, contains allusions to events after 1604, puts a crimp in the thesis-but to a cultist, what's in a crimp...