Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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VIRGINIA WOOLF'S CHILDHOOD was very early cheated of its innocence by madness, grief and death. As the daughter of the famous, austere Victorian scholar Leslie Stephen, author of The Dictionary of National Biography, and Julia Pattle, a Pre-Raphelite beauty, Virginia watched her father wear out first his wife, then her step-daughter, with his incessant, self-pitying demands that they attend to his comfort. From Bell's account of the Stephen household, it becomes clear how exact an imaginative rendition of her own childhood is the Ramsey menage of To the lighthouse. Her mother's death...
SYMPHONY CINEMA I. Diary of a Mad Housewife, 1:15, 4:45, 8:15; Slaughterhouse...
...Modigliani, Renoir, Picasso-many of inferior quality and some of them outright fakes, routinely go for 20% to 2,000% above their New York or London prices. About 500 galleries have mushroomed in Japan, and especially along the Ginza, in the past few years. Says Dealer Yoko Fukushima: "The mad Japanese buying abroad has long turned Tokyo into the world's best market for second-rate works by first-rate artists. Japanese buy names, not quality." Even the patriarchal trading houses of Japan are in on the act -sometimes with depressing results, as when the huge Marubeni Corp. added...
...Happy Organ Shuffle, in three different moods: light, sad, then angry ("All the frustrating and angry things that have ever happened over the years are now building up inside of you"). On the angry version the music grew harsh and rushed, then got out of hand. "When I get mad, I play real fast," Van Winkle explained afterward...
...including the manticore-a creature with the head of a man, the body of a lion and the tail of a dragon. It is himself, the barbed and beastly rationalist. The colloquies between patient and healer are of a high order; now and then they veer unexpectedly into a mad kind of comedy, as when he tells of the attempt of his socially ambitious stepmother and an inept dentist friend to mold a plastic death mask from his father's corpse, with the result that the old man goes to his grave lacking eyebrows...