Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orchestrated, the nation's clergy are raising their voices against the world's mad arms rush, but the people who are obsessed with weapons-like the Soviets-hurry on. The U.S. is dragged along. Need...
Confined to the past tense and a prickly brogue, the trio conjure up a existence of bucketing around Scotland, Wales and Ireland in a van that doubles as home and transport. They fetch up in drafty halls before the blind, the crippled and the mad (unseen), some of whom never wanted to be cured but came to confirm their unyielding despair...
...There were also zoot-suit riots in Los Angeles, but they did not occur until later on, and it was not Stilwell who put them down (though he commanded the Third Corps at Monterey in the early days of the war). Spielberg has simply brought everything together in one mad moment. Says he: "It's about a week where everybody put his worst fears and dreads together...
Thom Ramiga, a South African student, said yesterday. "At that point, students were really mad. People were given the impression that the reply from the administration might be favorable. Some students were even crying," he added...
...shifted from young Pip to the vindictive harridan who teaches him his first lesson in cruelty and deceit. In Miss Havisham's Fire we see her on her calamitous wedding day, deserted by her bridegroom. (The young Miss Havisham is sung by Gianna Rolandi, who has a generous mad scene of her own.) There is a brushstroke plot involving an inquest into Miss Havisham's death, but the opera is really a star vehicle for a coloratura. Argento had Beverly Sills in mind when he began work two years ago. She agreed to do the role, but withdrew...