Word: mad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wait, isn't this too crazy to be believable? It may be mad, but current policy does head us toward war. We will be a lot madder if we don't look before we have already leapt...
...made-by-hand songs about how he should be working the second shift at the shoe factory, except that here he is in this bar and probably won't make it tonight. David Buskin and Robin Batteau are classically trained musicians, sophisticated enough to put across an intricate, pun-mad parody of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice ("He was a great musician, who finally learned decomposition . . .") Christine Lavin sings witty, wistful songs about shouldering your way through the big world when you are only five feet tall and not very fierce...
...times I've ever seen my boss really mad is when those lobbyists came to try to get out of the tax bill," says the aide to a prominent Senate leader...
Auclair called the secret vote a "spineless, wishy-washy move." He said college President Catherine A. Tissinger is also unhappy with him, "but at least she can tell me why she is mad...
Frankenstein was a modern horror story; Russell means Gothic to be the last horror show. Byron is Count Dracula, feeding on his guests' dreams and demons. Shelley is every weak hero, Polidori every mad doctor, Clairmont every wench whose lust turns her into a succubus. And Godwin, racked by visions of her stillborn child, becomes the cursed mothers of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby. From the labor of her nightmares, she gives birth to literature's most enduring monster...