Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted. And now a group whose concerns they could not understand or accept came along with a style that they found incomprehensible and destructive. Their environment and their security were threatened by people who never seemed to listen, only to talk, and shout. Suddenly, the whole world had gone mad...
...deep-down relish, even though decades may have gone by since the play was originally produced. Room Service is 33 years old, and it revolves around just such a folklorish figure, the shoestring Broadway producer. Gordon Miller (Ron Leibman) is part wind machine, part mongoose, part Machiavelli and part mad...
...killing went on all around them. One soldier saw three children peek from some brush where they were hiding, motioned them to lie flat. Several G.I.s shouted to distract a soldier just as he was about to shoot an elderly woman. About the only heroic figure in the mad morning was Lieut. Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot who marked spots where he saw wounded children and women so that ground troops could provide medical aid. He was astonished and furious when he saw officers and G.I.s rush over to shoot the victims instead. Thompson landed several times to rescue civilians...
Scaling the Glass Mountain. What goes on in Barthelme's surrealistic, mad-dance little world? In the first place, it is peopled with the oddest, the most chillingly funny characters: Horace, a gourmet-policeman, whose pièce de résistance is Rock Cornish hen; Lars Bang, a coachman out of a period print who hits and runs like a Mafia mobster; and there is even the Phantom of the Opera's Friend...
...underlying motif of the play is madness. The government is mad. The police are mad. Psychiatrists are mad. By extension, the modern world is mad. It is not such a new idea. What is wonderfully refreshing is that Joe Orton has such mad, mad fun with...