Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streets; trading continued on the stock exchanges and schools held classes; even the trains ran more or less on schedule. Indeed, for most of India's 600 million citizens, it apparently was business as usual. If anything, life in New Delhi seemed more orderly than ever: the typically mad swirl of traffic was restrained, and queues for buses were models of decorum...
...sentimental and silly), this comedy is sharp and wicked as can be. That's Lubitach, I guess. The scene is the German occupation of Warsaw, where Benny and friends outwit the Nazis. The humor is often best because it comes so dangerously close to bad taste-people got mad at it when it came out because of the subject matter, but it's nowhere near as vulgar as the respectful shlock made in those years with great legs swooning when the stormtroopers come, or Betty Grable exhorting the troops. As a matter of fact, my most earnestly Zionist friend gets...
Though the cast is far from blameless, the graver error lies with Director Anthony Page. When Lear goes mad on the storm-blistered heath, it is not because his daughters Goneril and Regan have turned their backs on him but because God has. Shakespeare means us to know that the universe itself has reached its apocalyptic hour, and he asks his white-locked King to look upon the dethronement of all order, a grotesque, absurd, horrifying realm of meaninglessness. Instead, Page has encouraged Morris Carnovsky to stress the "foolish fond old man" in Lear, petulant, bewildered and sorely vexed...
...answer by retracing a path trampled flat by idolaters. After a pampered, precocious childhood filled with adoring sisters, gothic novels and the promise of an inherited baronetcy, Shelley was thrust into a Dickensian boarding school. At Eton, his refusal to kowtow to senior students earned him the nickname "Mad Shelley." There followed University College, Oxford, which gratefully expelled young Percy Bysshe, after a scant six months, for writing a broadside on atheism...
...always kept his temper, except for "occasional outbursts on the golf course." Nonetheless, he was obviously angry over the callow opposition of some Americans to resettling about 115,000 Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. At a meeting with Republican congressional leaders, the President said that he was "damned mad" and added: "It just burns me up. These great humanitarians -they just want to turn their backs. We didn't do it with the Hungarians. We didn't do it with the Cubans. And damn it, we're not going to do it now." To that end Ford...