Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arsenic and Old Lace is a delightfully funny play. Neither age nor the not-quite-first-rate present production obscures more than a trifle of Mr. Kesselring's mad theatical...
...Madness gallops in their family: of their three nephews, Teddy is convinced he is Theodore Roosevelt, Jonathan is a psychopathic slaughterer, and Mortimer is a drama critic. The plot is a bit mad, and is far too intricately folded to describe. And it never ends. As the final curtain falls, a guest is raising his glass. "Elderberry wine is rare nowadays--I thought I'd had my last glass." "No," replies Aunt Martha, "Here...
...picture concerns the plight of a band rebel cavalry men who steal $12,500 from the Union Army four days after the war has ended. Presley is cast as a crazy-mixed ("mad like a dog") up youth who kicks his wife, sneers at his mother, and shoots his brother. It is a difficult role for inexperienced Presley and everytime he tries to act, he muffs the part. And, as often happens in big-name productions, the stars are overshadowed by a minor characer who plays his part to perfection. In Love Me Tender the spotlight is captured...
...Hamilton to do a similar job. This kept her roving through mine, mill and smelter for a dozen years. She combatted the effects of such anciently known poisons as mercury, used by hatters in matting felt and a frequent cause of brain damage (hence, some say, the expression "mad as a hatter"). And she fought ultramodern lethal concoctions-TNT, aniline dyes, picric acid, which stained its workers so yellow that they were dubbed "canaries." She campaigned for ventilation, antitoxic rinses, safeguards of all kinds...
Finally, Shahn urged revision of the common conception of the artist as a "mad genius." The value of unorthodoxy and why it exists, he continued, must still be acknowledged...