Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said God is dead and the Catholic Church is archaic and unprogressive? He and it are very much alive in every fiber of Dan and Phil Berrigan [Jan. 25] -in their courageous mad struggle for some kind of human decency...
...Hopping Mad. When the story appeared, Connally asked that the closed hearings of the Senate Finance Committee be opened. He explained that the payments were spread over a ten-year period for tax reasons. During the time he was Governor, he performed minor chores for the estate. The committee approved his nomination, 13-0, but a few of its members were hopping mad...
...Turista is not the average Woody Allen tourist comedy. It is always engrossing, but also enigmatic, for Shepard never defines his people. Who is mad? Is it the doctor, or is it the patient? Who is sane? The wife, the witch doctor, the Mexican-cum-American-cum-southern black slave narrator? The viewer is just not sure, nor can he be, given Shepard's own lack of clarity. In any case, the acting is top rate, with Jan Egleson excelling in his ability to switch accents and characters in a moment, and Roberta Collinge marvelous as the wife...
...winter dance festival. In the space of seven days, some 60,000 people jammed the city's theaters to watch a worldwide assortment of performers. For undemanding viewers, a group called the Siberian Dancers and Singers of Omsk lit up Carnegie Hall with the bounding energy of mad Russian muzhiks-despite several ammonia bottles planted by activists protesting Soviet antiSemitism. More passive dance fans turned up at the New York State Theater to watch homegrown Master George Balanchine and his New York City Ballet hold their own against all competition, despite two disappointing and one merely promising new ballets...
...ROBERT DRINAN, 50, Democrat, Mass., has the good humor to dub himself the "Mad Monk," but is zealously serious about peace and world hunger. Says he: "I can't live at peace with myself knowing that we have 6% of the world's population and consume 60% of the world's resources." He hopes for a seat on the Judiciary Committee to put his experience as a law school dean to good...