Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour to 15 minutes six years ago, some 10 million fans proved they could be as loud as they had been loyal. The New York Times complained that "minority" viewers were being disenfranchised. The Washington Times-Herald asked: "Who's responsible for this brainstorm-someone who's mad at the human race?" The late Playwright Robert Sherwood moaned: "Calamity." Last week ABC's Kukla, Fran & Ollie, TV's second oldest network show (after Kraft TV Theater) went dark after a ten-year run, and all earlier sounds became mere whimpers. A New Jersey woman wrote Sponsor...
...into this were-world has slouched a new sort of creature: the cave-chested, pout-lipped, black-jacketed hero of such pictures as Rock All Night ("Some have to dance . . . some have to kill!"), Reform School Girl ("Boy-hungry wildcats gone mad!"). The teen-spleen movies, following the monster epic's formula of low-budget and low brain-wattage, are packing in the same audiences...
...said one flabbergasted distributor: "I don't get it; I can't even stand to look at the stills"), the next step in low, lowbrow cinema was a marriage of the undead with the underdone: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Herman Cohen; American-International). Plot synopsis: a mad psychiatrist turns a sensitive adolescent into a hairy, ravening beast. Says 30-year-old Producer Cohen: "I heard that 62% of the movie audience was between 15 and 30, and I knew that the movies that were grossing well were horror or rock-'n'-roll films...
...soon being choked too. Some girls complained of being pricked by needles, would thereupon go into a frenzy of body slapping, giggling, jumping and screaming. "One night," says an instructor, "was the worst ever. The girls punched, screamed, laughed until the noise was enough to drive a man mad...
...irritatingly tedious, always impressive if not steadily arresting. It is played in a minor key, for this is a bitter comedy sounding life's black notes. The prevailing mood is irony, starting with the title itself. In Cozzens' meaning, "possessed" stands for "seized" or ''made mad." The more one loves, he is saying, the less one understands. Though characters crowd the novel's pages, only one man is schooled fully by this theme, and if the book had a subtitle it would be "The Education of Arthur Winner...