Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a cost in politicizing wage-price decisions as we have done. Instead of getting mad at their landlord when their rent goes up, people now get mad at the President. Somehow the Government has put itself in a position of saying, "We are going to protect you." There is a feeling that Uncle Sam is standing there making sure the pie is going to be sliced properly...
...transplanted Russian who repeats adages like "God does not mean that we miss too much what he takes from us," and "As we came from the earth, so are we returned to it." Grandmother needs all her homely folk wisdom, for her daughter Alexandra (Diana Muldaur) has been driven mad-not by Granny's dialogue, as might be imagined, but by Mysterious Events. Alexandra sulks around the place in her all-violet wardrobe, and can be discovered from time to time near the closed-over well in the front yard, prostrate with grief...
...yell and kick at things." At other times "Artie baked a lot at home -cakes and cookies-and he made perfect frosting. He was a perfectionist. Artie would decorate each cupcake from a pastry-frosting bag, and if I dipped my finger in the frosting he'd be mad as hell...
This stichomythy has so little relation to anything approaching sense that one is hard pressed to believe it ever occurred. Far better it were the creation of some absurdist gone mad. That the Federal Theatre, which Mrs. Flanagan represented, could be investigated for producing Marlowe, for putting on "collectivist" children's plays, is only one symptom of the national disease...
...Lays, a movie currently being adapted from Joan Didion's novel, Tuesday portrays Maria, an actress in search of a breakdown in the vast emptiness of Southern California. "She knows the role so well she could phone it in," says Director Frank Perry (Diary of a Mad Housewife). "I tested hundreds of girls for the part, but I always knew it had to be Tuesday...