Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return after six years away from the company and three away from Manhattan. Her best role is in a masterly old bit of nonsense, Giselle, which she still dances better than anybody else. She floats about the stage as a peasant girl in love with a disguised nobleman, goes mad convincingly, and rises from the dead with incredible grace. Perhaps her leaps are not very high any more, and she spends little time on the tips of her toes, but every motion is polished and her feet are almost as expressive as hands. When she takes her curtain calls...
...marriage from the vantage point of a bedchamber in a Manhattan brownstone: the turn-of-the-century wedding night; the arrival of the first baby; the crisis over the other woman; the son's death in World War I; the daughter's wedding in the jazz-mad '20s; the husband (Rex Harrison) reliving the high spots of the marriage with the vision of his departed wife (Lilli Palmer) just before he, too, dies...
...made a lot of Decent People mad...
When Adenauer heard about it, he was hopping mad. Even the West German Socialists, who have long been demanding unification, said that the delegation's visit was just another Communist propaganda plot. But Ehlers' "mistake" turned out just fine for the West. West Germany's people were not for a minute duped by the Red delegation...
...Intention. In Oklahoma City, hospitalized Clarence E. Hodges told police that his wife had run over him with their family automobile after a quarrel, but he wouldn't prosecute because "I don't think she meant to hurt me; she loses her head when she gets mad...