Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large university, the movie makes several elaborate feints at symbolism, then quickly collapses under the weight of its petrified pretensions. Nicholson seems to be after a kind of existential melodrama: the basketball player frozen by his own spiritual malaise, with his roommate, the campus radical who goes mad in the last reel, representing the inevitable result of purposeful action in an insane world. But the film is too incoherent to sustain such interpretations. The action sways sloppily between the ballplayer and the radical, straddling an unwieldy subplot concerning the ballplayer's romance with a bitchy, nymphy faculty wife...
...when she died, an exhausted, mad mother of two, estranged from her poet husband, Ted Hughes. A typically American-looking blonde, she was much admired in English critical circles; half of literary London blamed itself for her death. Yet The Bell Jar, like the late poems, makes that tragedy seem a pathetic inevitability...
...used to think I'd be a little safer around Harvard Square. Not because its mystique was any less dramatic than New York's, but simply because bicyclists and strolling lovers were reputed to preempt the mad sailors and pyromaniacs...
...bombing provoked a torrent of critical reactions on campus-much of it from student radicals. NAC condemned the bombing on tactical grounds, as did SDS and PL, who chanted "Mass Actions, Not Mad Bombings." Most students and Faculty were unanimous in their denunciation of the bombing, and a Young Americans for Freedom rally in protest against the bombing drew more than 200 people...
...story begins with deceptive ordinariness. At holidays, Damian Glover returns home from college to his older sister Barbara and the mysteriously ailing parents to whom she is devoting her life. Keneally's passions, however, are too intense for mere realism. Observing that "absolutely millions of people" are mad with "family pride," he concludes that "the only way for them to get humility is through learning they're-you know-beasts." Accordingly, like a Greek mythologist with the heart of a gloomy seminary student, Keneally makes original sin literal by turning Father and Mother Glover into bull...