Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lack of specific information in the indictment, coupled with the Justice Department's refusal to amplify, has fueled the suspicions of skeptics, although some who initially dismissed the indictments as some mad joke now take them more gravely. In the New York Times, Tom Wicker argued that "if the Government cannot sustain these serious charges?better, for instance, than it was able to justify those against the Chicago Seven?it will provide another shocking example of the kind of official hysteria that so often damages individuals and clouds the public climate." Later the Times noted editorially: "Reason must await...
...Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun is Samantha Eggar, who takes her boss's car on an impromptu holiday drive in the south of France and gets herself involved en route in an increasingly perplexing and complex series of sinister incidents. Is she going mad? Was she already mad? Is she being used for some nefarious purpose...
...true northlander, boating, fishing and water-skiing in the summer, snowmobiling with his family during the winter. He was aware that, however he decided, he was in for trouble. "Whatever I do, I'm going to lose," he said. "If I go Conservative, the Liberals will be mad at me and vice versa...
...were all a little mad that winter," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, recalling the emotional excitement of 1840. "Not a man of us that did not have a plan for some new Utopia in his pocket." As common as a handkerchief and as casually displayed. Today, pockets seem to be empty of anything so inspiring. People are doubtless as distressed about social conditions as they were in 1840, but what has happened to Utopia? Those once myriad visions of ideal societies have all but disappeared, or have been transmogrified into the demonic dreams of science-fiction. Gone are the blessed isles...
...fact. But anyone who sits through two and a half hours of Cromwell is really entitled to know that Cromwell was not one of the Five Members Charles tried to arrest in 1642, that Pym died in 1643 and not circa 1647, that Ireton was not a power-mad advocate of absolute government, that Edward Hyde did not abandon Charles' cause, and that Cromwell did not spend "six years" wasting away in the country before the Protectorate. One of those lumbering ironies for which such films strive ( Anne concluded with a pan shot of Good Queen Bess...