Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King Christophe, mad dictator of Haiti, once had a formation of his troops march off the high walls of his fortress to their death to test their obedience. Unlike Sergeant McKeon, the King did not go with his men-perhaps because he realized "he had never been in the area before...
...bootleg native drink, skokiaan (subject of a recent U.S. hit tune), is usually mixed by "skokiaan queens" who know how to spike it with enough methyl alcohol to provide the jolt that thrills but does not kill. The balance is so easily upset that natives often go mad or blind from the skokiaan they buy in the shebeens of the native quarters...
...higher newsprint costs by "cutting out white space, narrowing column rules, shortening lines of type, crowding another column to a page, [resorting to] one or more of a dozen devices to make the paper look worse, which in turn make it harder to read and make the reader mad enough to turn his attention to television or a typographically attractive magazine . . . Nine out of ten papers are crowded, lack eye-appeal, crowd too much in too little . . . What is the business doing about color, or is it going to abandon that great area of popular appeal entirely to the magazines...
...Days (Cosmopolfilm; Columbia) is perhaps the best picture produced in Central Europe since the war. Made in Austria, it was flung before the German people at the time their sovereignty was restored, as a brutal reminder of the price they paid for political folly, as a hair of the mad dog that bit them. Based on a book by Michael A. Musmanno, a U.S. judge at the Nürnberg trials, the film tells the story of the last ten days in Hitler's headquarters in Berlin, at the end of World War II. Facts are respected wherever facts...
...should have been, while Cortright made a most dauntless limey sailor. At times the latter was slightly unconvincing, but his singing and a fine first act dance made up for any acting deficiency. Miss Petersen never could make up her mind what man she should marry and Loomis was mad as a hatter. Victor Altschul, Chester Hartman, and Alison Keith all added convincing Gilbert and Sullivan acting techniques to the production. Musical arrangements by pianist Richard Friedberg were superb...