Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much longer will we back our gamblers with more chips so they can get out of this mad game...
Certainly Calley is innocent until proven guilty. Assuming he was a terribly mixed-up soldier acting in a very irrational manner, or that he was an eager-to-please young officer following the orders of a mad superior-neither of these would qualify him for hero status. To place him on a pedestal and deluge him with fan mail is to me incomprehensible...
...General Creighton Abrams, U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, threw a monumental tantrum at his headquarters in Saigon. "You people are telling me what you think I want to know," he stormed at his intelligence officers. "I want to know what is actually happening." Said one source: "He was so mad he was dancing on the table tops...
PINTER is a master of the language, no doubt about it. His lines operate on many levels-the one which the actors understand, the one the audience understands, and the one that only Pinter himself understands. When Max, the aged, mad and offensive old man in The Homecoming, berates his oldest son for bringing his wife into the house, saying, "I've never had a whore under this roof before, ever since your mother died," only Pinter knows how right...
...diction until well into the second act. Susan Yakutis as his wife does a valiant job of keeping up their dialogue in the first act, but he seems not to understand quite what is going on. By the second act, though, he has joined the group, has become as mad as the rest, and seems to be finally cued...