Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this nation gone mad? Can a convicted murderer of women and children really become a folk hero? Are we to believe that murder without military reason is the norm for our armed services...
...diabolical agent, and plays Tom a card game, with Rakewell's soul as the stakes. Although Tom wins at this operatic Seventh Seal, the moral of the story turns out to be that such things don't have happy endings, and Tom ends his days stark raving mad...
...bombshell: The Rite of Spring, a sophisticated evocation of primitive myths and energies completed in 1913. Conductor Pierre Monteux recalled that when he first heard the composer run through it on the piano, bobbing up and down to accentuate its jagged rhythms, "I was convinced that he was raving mad." Later, when the work had its Paris première at the Theatre des Champs Elysées, many members of the audience thought so too. They erupted in perhaps the most notorious riot of music history, booing, fighting one another, pelting Monteux and the players with programs and hats...
...Cocker/Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a road movie like Hope and Crosby, or for that matter, Hopper and Fonda, never dreamed of. Last year Cocker, his compatriot Leon Russell and a few dozen musicians, singers, wives and assorted girl friends set out under the collective name Mad Dogs and Englishmen to make music all around the country. They played some 65 gigs in 57 days while a camera crew recorded the whole scene, onstage and backstage. The result is a 114-minute carnival of high spirits and solid rock 'n' roll that is almost as much...
...book, for instance, is a warm, wobbly tale about a reclusive young man who works in San Francisco in a library for unpublishable books. It is Brautigan's happy idea that life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their mad, lame manuscripts to this library, where they will be welcomed, registered and placed lovingly on shelves. The books will not be read, but they will be cherished. The need for such a library is evident in the librarian hero's sampling of books received...