Word: mad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vicki starts to perform a mad Apache war dance, spinning and turning in small, violent circles. Twenty feet in front of Vicki, high on the concrete platform, Bridey, Veva and Dianne are shrieking with excitement. As the train comes into view, they begin to spin and dance as if possessed. Bridey calls out to her mother as the train pulls onto the trestle, "Stop! Stop! You'll make it rain! You'll make it rain...
...story, but the versions began to multiply. Had she been married before? No. Well, in fact it turned out she had been, twice. Second Husband William Rickenbacker, investment counselor and son of World War I Flying Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, told the New York Daily News that she was "quite mad...
...London last month, the English National Opera (ENO) unveiled Director Jonathan Miller's production of Puccini's Tosca set during World War II and played in the style of one of Hollywood's gritty, black-and-white melodramas of the period. Earlier this season, the same company presented a Mad Max version of Bizet's Carmen by David Pountney that replaced castanets and mantillas with feral children darting amid junked American automobiles. In Paris, Producer Seth Schneidman staged Strauss's Elektra as a dream-theory psychodrama, freely mixing images of Greek antiquity and 19th century Europe...
...Harvard men's and women's ski teams had successful weekends at the Mad River Glen Carnival in Vermont, as both nordic teams and the men's alpine squad placed fist overall...
...that his friend is succumbing to the tyranny of a popular formula. "One never rides with anything," he warns, "because that is the way to dull up the world. One tries to improve everything with the tools available: imagination, mischief, irony and the marvelous knowledge that the world is mad." Rowan seems to agree, agonizing about his struggles with producers and network honchos, his efforts to break up the partnership with Martin, and above all his disenchantment with Laugh-In (whose life cycle, he fears, "will be a death cycle"). But in the end, he rides with...