Word: madcapping
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...before edging toward the black this year. Allbritton hired Bellows in 1975 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was associate editor, and Bellows revitalized the Star staff, modernized the typography, and concocted such popular features as a daily front-page interview with a newsmaker and "The Ear," a madcap, much-quoted gossip column...
...bestselling single Convoy) and Actor Kris Kristofferson share the same handle: "Rubber Duck." Kristofferson's, however, is strictly for the movies. As a rough-talking trucker in Convoy, Sam Peckinpah's new film, inspired by McCall's record, Kristofferson leads 100 fellow truckers in a madcap chase -with 20 or so police cars in pursuit. Up in the cab with "Rubber Duck" is his new girl, played by Actress Ali MacGraw, who is making her first movie since The Getaway in 1973. The longhaired Cliffie of Love Story even got a special hairdo for the film...
...your tastes run less to the classical than to carousing, check out John Roberts and Tony Barrand, who will perform April 23 at 8 p.m. at the Joy of Movement Center in Central Square. Roberts and Barrand, two madcap Englishmen who not surprisingly bill themselves as "two madcap Englishmen," play traditional English songs and ballads and tell traditional English stories and jokes. If you go, applaud and laugh at all the traditional pauses...
...might trigger a slaughter. All this was the work of a mere dozen men who held 132 hostages in three Washington buildings for a chilling 38 hours. The terrorists made dramatically clear what has become all too obvious: anybody with a cause and a gun, be he mad or madcap, fanatic or eccentric, can seize and hold national attention by kidnaping and threatening to kill innocent victims...
...Orten's satirical farce What The Butler Saw gives a zany view of the fine line between the sane and the insane. The play is a wild conglomeration of mistaken identities, costume changes (performed on stage), the disappearance of characters who never existed, and other madcap antics, all of which are somehow untangled in the final scene. Highlight performances are given by Leo-Pierre Roy and David Reiffel, who ham it up beautifully as incompetent representatives of the psychiatric profession...