Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homosexual affair between a 13-year-old boy and his 30-year-old seducer, a gas-station attendant. Tesch borrows from Jones the neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word. Among Tesch's victims and vermin: a girl who commits incest and goes mad, a wife-beating lush, an aging sadistic homosexual. The most defenseless victim is the English language, e.g., "A pang of lonesomeness settled over him like a cold wet spray." Some might argue that Tesch was a born bad writer. But Gerald, an off-and-on Handy colonist since 1952, has apparently...
...Mad Money. In West Babylon, N.Y., after thieves broke into a house and stole between $5,000 and $12,000 cached in a feed sack, police found roughly $17,000 more lying around, got an explanation from ex-Cab Driver John Van Huda: "You know how it is, you need money around the house for emergencies...
...Sullivan, posed a fancy threat, but Mary, starring in Born Yesterday (Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC), was still TV champion. There were no hard feelings backstage either. "Elvis is jus' darlin','' drawled Texas-born Mary. "Besides, I can't be mad. My mother's name was Presley. We might just be kinfolks...
...clerk in the offices of the East India Company-a fragile, stammering youth with a large head on a thin little body, pipestem legs, and a strained look about his eyes. As a result of a nervous breakdown he himself had spent six weeks "very agreeably in a mad house at Hoxton." But confronted with the hard-and-fast alternatives of taking care of Mary or committing her to an institution, Charles never hesitated. Until death parted them, brother and sister lived together like an old devoted married pair. During the long periods when Mary was sane, brother and sister...
Unhappily, Vercors metaphysical skin-diving never gets much below the level of a mad-scientist movie in this odd tale of a man seeking "the refuge of non-being...