Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found that hard to believe." Sometimes the slower Minnesota pace irritates Thompson: "When I get frustrated because a project isn't moving fast enough, I am tempted to bring in someone from the outside, a heavy." But he's never done so because "you just can't get mad at anybody here...
Director Edwin Sherin's stage movement is brisk and effective, but there is no wildness in it, no sense of irrational forces fiercely at play. Among the rest of the cast, only Rene Auberjonois as Edgar rises above rep company competence. In his mad scenes he finds and illuminates the heart of the darkness Shakespeare was trying to penetrate. If his fellows had his verve and imagination, this Lear might have been more than just another turn by a gifted, but perhaps overly ambitious, star...
James Cagney was spellbinding in White Heat (1949) as Cody Jarret, a maniacal hoodlum slowly losing his mind. When Cagney goes totally mad, blowing himself up with his famous line "Here I am, Ma, top of the world!", we have seen what pushed Cagney to his end. We are totally immersed in the tension Cagney builds up. All of the action has brought us closer to an understanding of his life, inspiring a fascination with the terror of his homicidal insanity...
...Donna, was playing, Mr. Stockton stuck a racket through the fist of his tousle-haired three year old and was tossing tennis balls at him, trying to get this kid who half-crawled to swing a flat forehand. Meanwhile Mrs. Stockton kept trying tried to intercept the tosses with mad clutching movements. And she kept shrieking, "You're not going to get this one! You're not going to wreck this one like you wrecked the others...
...Simon's only problem. She has received hate mail and threatening phone calls. One night she heard someone prowling around in her barn. "I became frightened, so I called the police." she recalls. "A nice officer searched my barn and concluded: 'Aw, they're just mad at you because of that book...