Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conceivable that it's not the best method," Robert Wallach '78 said yesterday. "We may be alienating the people in the office, but persisting by letting them know we're mad and serious is worth that risk...
Glashow's memories of school are somewhat less sublime. "For 'physics' we had a choice between automotive and electrical engineering...My teacher was 'Mad-Dog' Tyson, who had a mania for keeping students quiet in the halls. He was also preoccupied with neat notebooks...
Strangest of all is that when Raines complains to Rental Agent Ava Gardner, she is told that those other apartments have been unoccupied for years. Is she going mad? Is she the victim of a bizarre plot by her lover (Chris Sarandon), a lawyer with shady connections? Poor girl, if only she had seen such essays in pop demonology as The Exorcist and The Omen, she would realize that she is simply, almost literally, going to hell...
...angry man who actually acts out his rage usually appears only in films-the demented TV newscaster in Network, for example, who declares war on what he sees as the Establishment and touches a sympathetic nerve in millions of viewers by urging them to shout, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!" But sometimes he appears in real life...
Last week in Indianapolis, Anthony Kiritsis, 44, a sometime car salesman who had hoped to make his fortune in real estate, was mad as hell, and he decided not to take it any more. He walked into the Meridian Mortgage Co., seized President Richard Hall, 42, wired the muzzle of a sawed-off shotgun to Hall's neck and led him into the street to begin a 63-hour odyssey of personal fury and public terror...