Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fonda rides above them like a man on a gelding. Without missing a hoofbeat or a paycheck, he appears in westerns (Jesse James), biographies (The Story of Alexander Graham Bell), even comedies (The Mad Miss Manton). But it is not until 1940 that the man and his role fuse into the permanence of art. More than 20 years later, John Steinbeck unreels a print of The Grapes of Wrath...
...about Claude, the flower- child leader of the tribe, who burns his library card- instead of his draft card- as a joke. The hippies play at being marry pranksters until their innocence is shattered by Claude's symbolic departure via an acid trip. His sleep is a portent of mad America's destruction of the tribe's hippie ideal...
Some people are going crazy at Harvard. Those who really flip out-the lucky ones-en up in Stillman or McLean's. But others, not quite mad enough have to hang around here until they freak out and someone notices...
...lines, as I read my notes, are great. Barnard Hughes as General Fitzhugh (he played the mad revivalist-pimp in Midnight Cowboy ) shoves a Sears Rocbuck size military catalogue in the lap of Nonomura's Prince Gow. "See if there's anything in there that grabs...
...more than a hideously bad joke. The roaring is that of personality, and a line of Sammler's applies: "Perhaps when people are so desperately impotent they play that instrument, the personality, louder and wilder." Henderson roars himself out literally-impersonating a lion-when the author's mad plot sends him into the bush with a tribe of lion worshipers. He returns to the new world calmed, ready to enter medical school...