Word: mad
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...hand, the action in "Peanuts" conveyed a very American sense that things could be changed, or at least modified, by sudden violence. By getting good and mad you could resolve things. But, at the same time, Charlie Brown reminded people, as no other cartoon character had, of what it was to be vulnerable, to be human...
...take. Reading the strip was a peculiar mixture of utter forgetfulness and at the same time, tremendous consciousness. "Peanuts" was proof that you were not alone when you woke in the middle of the night marooned with your failures, staring into the dark, worrying that the world had gone mad...
...Venter's high-flying profile on Wall Street, where his company was publicly traded, didn't sit well with Collins, by now the project's unofficial leader. Collins claimed at one point that Venter's genome map would be so incomplete and full of errors it would read like Mad magazine. Not to be bested in a war of words, Venter called the genome project's directors the "liars' club...
...soul was the right touch of poignancy. Saying he would be mending fences in Tennessee admitted how much it hurt to be rebuffed at home. Invoking the cliched "It's time for me to go" so elegiacally displayed the mordant, subtle humor of one who accepts that life is mad. Finally we glimpsed the Gore who, according to those who love him most, always existed...
Guess whose brother just happens to be in the Himalayan neighborhood, eager to save the sister who has not forgiven him for Dad's death? Now try to guess why Scott Glenn signed on to play the shaggy, half-mad old man of the mountains honchoing the rescue. It is the year's most ludicrous character part in what is likely the year's most ludicrous action movie...