Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pitch. The simile is apt. As 'they launch with bull's-eye pitch and sure-fire sense of attack into one of their jazz-flavored re-arrangements (You Took Advantage of Me, Stormy Weather), the Hi-Lo's suggest the Budapest String Quartet gone mad. But this quartet is not tied to strings, generally achieves its best effects with vocal approximations of all kinds of instruments. Their voices may sound like a brass section, and often they have the sculptured phrasing of a big band. They hit the opening phrases of My Sugar is So Refined with...
Throughout their act, they spoof their own material, run in gag numbers kidding singing commercials and California's ad-mad mortuaries: "At Goldheim's you can lie on your crisp, moisture-free bier and know that your bier is Goldheim's, the dry bier...
...when the egg white and the cardoon are on the window sills, a village woman empties a chamber pot on two peasants. This has the odd effect of stirring their passions, and they waylay Michela with rape in mind. The rape is not accomplished, but Michela becomes as mutely mad as her sister; what is more she is really in love with one of the peasants and he with her. Father Nicola renounces the traditional vengeance, but there is more violence, including 'castration and murder, before the survivors take off to the New World...
Most of the intelligent people in New Hampshire laugh off Loeb's editorials as being a lot of garbage; I think they are wonderful. I also like Malenkov, Mickey Mouse and Mad comics...
...McMath wants a fight, he can sure get one with me.' I said, 'John, if you go in there with that attitude, he's gonna whip the pants off you. That's the only way people can ever beat you-by making you mad. And here you sit in my office, and you're mad already, and the campaign hasn't even started...