Word: madder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonders why anyone would try to cut through such semiotic superabundance for the sake of crafting a new madder metaphor. What is it about scarlet and its ilk that would simultaneously produce two completely unrelated books of photography devoted to pictorial variations on the same red object? Kenn Duncan's Red Shoes comprises 42 photos of the famous in fuchsia footgear, Kevin Clarke and Horst Wackerbarth's The Red Couch is the record of the amazing overland odyssey of twin crimson chaises through the heart of America...
...best part. The Republican that's been doing the job for the past twelve years, a Mr. E.G. ("Bud") Shuster, says that Miss Jane is going to bring out all her fancy Beverly Hills friends and turn the race into "Hollywood East." Well, that got her madder than a wet possum, I guess, 'cause she came right back saying that her campaign "won't be predicated on stars coming in, I'll tell you that." Oooo, dogie...
...opera hall against orders. MASH jumped back into the fray with a declaration that policemen, like all other citizens, are entitled to go to the opera. As for MAD, perhaps it could expand to meet the new crisis, possibly forming new groups called Memphians Against Damsels Doing Ecdysiast Routines (MADDER), Memphians Against Chest Hair at Operas (MACHO) or, to honor the Met, Memphians Against Culture Buffs Exposing Themselves Heedlessly (MACBETH...
...destiny of Thomas Hardy, a quiet little man whose principal excitement consisted of a bicycle ride followed by afternoon tea, to remind his fellow Victorians of an England darker and madder than anything in literature since Lear roamed the heath. The novelist made contemporary by film (Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient...
...nowadays, it is to tell about blowing sky high?not remembering her speech?when she presented an award at the Tony ceremonies a few months ago. Or to describe how, on the set of Stab, "I just couldn't get a scene right. The dialogue seemed false. I got madder and madder because I knew the answer lay within me, but I couldn't wrestle it up. I sulked all day?something I never did before. There's a lot of tension toward the end of a film, because the answers have to be there...