Word: mad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violent policiers (Beverly Hills Cop II, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Stakeout), corrosive Viet Nam memorials (Platoon and Full Metal Jacket), thrillers about sexual anxiety (Fatal Attraction). Steven Spielberg has flown to the dark side of E.T.: in Empire of the Sun a boy goes to war, and nearly goes mad. Even the comedies are cynical. The Secret of My Success got Michael J. Fox into bed with his uncle's wife to help advance his career. The Witches of Eastwick sent Satan to defeat at the caressing hands of three ravishing feminists. This week's predictable hit, Throw Momma from...
...There are also such painters as John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, Francis Towne and Thomas Girtin, whose images of landscape exhale the sweet breath of exact vision through its quintessential medium, the watercolor sketch, while the apocalyptic side of English Romanticism gets full play in William Blake and John ("Mad") Martin...
...Some mad scientist in Hanover should get to work on jet-propelled skates. Otherwise, the Big Green will find itself skating on thin ice tonight...
...capitalizes on her Washington years with a novel about politics and bedfellows. Dean writes about sex in the White House and sex on the presidential yacht. Her version of John Kennedy gives new meaning to the Bay of Pigs affair, as the randy Commander in Chief leaves his lover mad and languishing in a Swiss sanatorium. Elsewhere in this view of Washington below the Beltway, sex and statecraft are cranked up to date. "The real story at the heart of politics and male power was their wives and lady friends," thinks Deena Simon, the gossip columnist with a nose...
...prosecutor in Charleston, W. Va., Mike Roark sported combat fatigues and a pistol during drug raids and won the nickname "Mad Dog" for his fierce pursuit of local dealers. As the city's popular Republican mayor, Roark, 42, had romped to an easy re-election last April, and was touted as a candidate for Congress or Governor. Last week, however, Roark was back in court, this time as a defendant. As he was about to go to trial, the mayor pleaded guilty to six charges of cocaine possession and resigned his position. He faces as much as six years...