Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water's edge. For months Hanoi and Saigon have taken an understandable if unduly partisan interest in the U.S. presidential campaign. Hanoi's newspapers and radio have, of course, always referred to President Nixon as "an odious character of wicked blood," "an imperialist bandit," "a mad dog." Hanoi has not endorsed George McGovern, but because of his pledge to withdraw U.S. forces unilaterally has reported his campaign with respect. In Saigon, evidently with President Thieu's approval, radio and television stations have been broadcasting editorials calling McGovern "mad dog" and "an enemy of the South Vietnamese people...
Bordered by quietly elegant homes and supported by a highly exclusive membership, the West Side Tennis Club of Forest Hills, N.Y., is a bastion of bourgeois gentility. Last week its manicured grounds were savaged by an intruder from the socialist East, a lank-haired and slightly mad lieutenant of the Rumanian army named Ilie Nastase, 26. Flying about the grass courts like an impassioned Gypsy dancer, Nastase came from behind to defeat Arthur Ashe of Richmond 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 and win the U.S. Open championship. His reward: a check...
...rest of Goldberg's stories conform to a pattern that is be coming tediously familiar these days. Goldberg follows the form skillfully enough. Like Donald Barthelme he demonstrates not by fantastic apparitions but by a series of warped mundanities, that the familiar world is totally mad. The effect is like the disorientation of a sour dream...
...Subtitled "Our Friends in the Animal Kingdom Finally Get It On," the pictorial is actually funny. But in the context of the rest of Our it reads like self-parody. There are pictures of walfuses, rhinos, zebras, tortoises and hippopatomuses getting laid. It looks more like a selection from Mad magazine than from what the PR men call Playboy's new publication with an international flavor...
...collaborator Richard Suskind originally planned nothing more wicked than "a gorgeous literary caper." As the plot deepened, he saw it as "a venture into the unknown, a testing of myself." His wife Edith approved, he recalls, and so did his mistress Nina van Pallandt. "You're quite, quite mad," Nina said to Irving when he told her of the project in their Mexican hotel bedroom, "but the world is mad, so what's the bloody difference? And I love...