Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only write when the mood comes," said Sir John Betjeman, "and it was just about to come when the phone started ringing and the television cameras arrived. Now I'm showing off like mad." At 66, Betjeman had just been named England's 19th poet laureate. The royal appointment, which pays $170 a year plus $66 "in lieu of a butt of sack," filled him first with "surprise, then a feeling of being humbled, and then pleasure." Perhaps England's most popular contemporary poet, Betjeman said he had no intention of carrying out the laureate...
...Eden that Coward knows about or cares about, and for half a century he has communicated his blissful delight with it. And that's what this new revue-styled evening of songs and patter off Broadway is-a blissful delight. There is the familiar and engaging Coward of Mad Dogs and Englishmen, I'll See You Again, Someday I'll Find You and I'll Follow My Secret Heart. These songs seem always to have existed, yet their sentiments are fresh as first love. The show also contains less familiar Coward, like Nina, a balky girl...
...woman find happiness with out her orgasm? Is motherhood a uni versal female urge resisted at one's own risk? Will day centers save the sanity, if not the very life, of the mad house wife? Not even Ann Landers knows, certainly not Midge Decter, who is at her weakest when - especially on sex - she seems to be passing off private views as nature's laws. What Miss Decter does know is that these issues are not the issue, that the real question is whether or not ideology can or should define life so that all human griefs...
Chicagoans wonder if ticket blitzing is the proper role for their men in blue, whatever their grievances. When handed a summons for speeding, though she claims she was doing no more than 10 m.p.h., a black woman cab driver fumed: "If they're mad at someone, why don't they go out and shoot hoodlums...
...view of Altamont, double bills with the stomach churning Permance Friday considerably improves the schedule, with Peter Yale's entertaining Bullitt, and Arthur Penn's archetypal American love story. Bonnir and Clyde Sunday and Monday make for a return to drek, as the Perrys's strident Diars of a Mad Housewife plays with polarishes slick and soulless Rosemary's Baby Call...