Word: madding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foaming with Blood. "Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad," said Powell, borrowing from Euripides. Britain "must be mad as a nation, literally mad," he went on, to continue letting in colored immigrants, who have made Britons "feel like strangers in their own country." Powell warned that passing the race-relations bill would be like "throwing a match on gunpowder," demanded a virtual end to immigration and payments of cash bonuses to immigrants willing to leave. Predicting a 250% rise in the colored population within two decades, he declared: "As I look ahead, I am filled...
...animals in his father's pet shop. Still, such trials can end with severe sentences. The deserted mother's vision of her husband's eventual return is affecting because it seems so hopeless. The teenager, unable to face the consequences of his experiment, goes mad and leaves his father to die of old age and grief...
Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley was hopping mad. Mulling over the massive damage caused by black rioters on the city's West Side after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Daley came to the conclusion that he had been badly let down by his police. The toll: 162 buildings gutted by arsonists, 22 more partially destroyed; 268 businesses and homes looted; $9,000,000 in property losses; eleven lives lost. Yet, of the 2,900 Negroes arrested, only 19 were charged with arson. Last week Daley's ire erupted with nationwide reverberations...
...Discovery I enters the orbit of Jupiter. There he sees the object of his trip-the omnipotent slab. He heads for it, and suddenly conventional dimensions vanish. An avalanche of eerie, kinetic effects attacks the eye and bends the mind. Kubrick turns the screen into a planetarium gone mad and provides the viewer with the closest equivalent to psychedelic experience this side of hallucinogens. At the end, beyond time and space, Dullea apparently learns the secret of the universe-only to find that, as Churchill said about Russia, it is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma...
...island off the coast of Sweden live a cadaverous, obsessed painter (Max von Sydow) and his pregnant wife (Liv Ullman). The time is summer, and Von Sydow is slowly going mad. He is terrified by demons, people whom he sees and fears. One is a homosexual, another a 216-year-old woman who keeps threatening to take off her hat-and her face. Gradually infected with her husband's aberrations, Ullman looks up from her yard one day and sees the ancient crone. Soon the artist and his wife are invited to a haunted castle where the Draculalike Baron...