Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cube-shaped platform. From behind the cube popped the curvy figure of Erika Goodman, who led White on a merry chase that culminated twelve minutes later in a highly suggestive climax. The cube lit up, a smoke bomb went off, rubber balls soared through the air like mad meteorites and the lights cut off in a final blackout. Jackpot was gimmicky, erotic and decidedly brash. It was also, every minute of it, thoroughly charming. The humor that Arpino found in an electronic score called Synapse may or may not have been intended by Composer Jacob Druckman...
LOLLY-MADONNA XXX is a love-and-kisses signature at the end of a note that leads two Tennessee hill families into range warfare. The plot is infernally complex, while the idea- an allegory about aggression and the mad carnage it can cause- is simpleminded, like symbolizing the Viet Nam War (or any war) by a skirmish in a papaw patch. The feuding families are so grossly caricatured in the writing and direction that by comparison the Jukes and the Kalli-kaks seem like the Cabots and the Lodges. Robert Ryan and Rod Steiger appear as the opposing patriarchs, Ryan...
...with the way things have gone. Despite the name change, the company's revenues last year rose almost 9% over 1971. One sure sign that Exxon has arrived as a brand name is that it has become the butt of cartoonists' jokes. For example, a cartoon in Mad magazine shows a picture of the White House with a sign overhead emblazoned Nixxon. The caption: "But it's still the same...
...Gravity's Rainbow, which is V. squared and 49 cubed. It is a funny, disturbing, exhausting and massive novel, mind-fogging in its range and permutations, its display of knowledge and virtuosity-a metaphysical, phenomenological, technological Mad Comic. The author seems to have read and understood everything from quantum mechanics, probability theory and engineering manuals to the labels on bottles of 1920 Schloss Vollrads, Tarot cards and rock lyrics. This, and much more, Pynchon catalogues and tickles into fantasies so elaborately detailed that most of his readers will come away feeling illiterate in the terms of the 20th century...
...THINK even Gloria Steinem found much to get mad about at last night's Pudding opening. It's not that the folks on Holyoke Street have given up their traditions of adolescent sex humor, bathroom jokes, and Gold-Coast-sensibility wisecracks. They've half-heartedly tried to keep appearances up, in fact. But the first night was so obviously harmless that it would take a lot of effort to be offended...