Word: madding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trivial opera. Yet Tchaikovsky managed to write a nearly flawless bit of trivia when he sat down to put silly music to a silly libretto about a fateful faro game and an old countess who is scared to death. That's right, scared to death by a mad gambler named Herman. In this recording, the role of the Countess is fairly well sung by Mezzo-Soprano Valentina Levko, and Herman is less well sung by Tenor Zurab Andzhaparidzye. The other principals validate Russia's pride in its bassos and baritones, and embarrassment for its screechy sopranos. Boris Khaikin...
Miserable & Mad. Indeed, the slightly schizoid Romantic preoccupation with nature and the supernatural, physical reality and psychological mystery, rooted itself easily in English soil. Swiss-born John Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) emigrated to England at 22 and took up painting with the encouragement of Sir Joshua Reynolds. His ghoulish portrayals of Shakespearean heroes and fantastic chimeras, such as The Nightmare, predated Goya's grotesques by more than a decade and were immensely popular on the Continent. In their desire to get back to nature, the English Romantics also abandoned the ruins of Italy in favor of the English countryside...
...Mad About Craters. The celestial find brought new honors to Ikeya, 24, and Seki, 37, each of whom has now discovered five comets that are wholly or partially named after him. Ikeya became obsessed with astronomy in junior high school, where he had an opportunity to peer through a small telescope one night and saw the craters of the moon and the rings of Saturn. "I was so excited," he recalls, "that I couldn't sleep nights and would stay outdoors staring at the stars. My mother was convinced that I had gone mad and talked of taking...
...over $6,000,000 Avis account. Now, D.D.B. has counted 47 bugs that plague car renters and pledged to do battle against them throughout 1968. The latest effort features such creatures as the flat-spare bug, the wobbly-mirror bug and the mirror-smearer bug-which "multiply like mad if left alone." In a really competitive business, explains Avis President Winston Morrow, service is the ultimate weapon...
...eggs get themselves scrambled with a beautiful blonde spy (the late Françoise Dorléac) who is cooling it in red fox, and a jolly American spy (Karl Malden), who is sweating it in a sauna bath. Both of them are working for General Midwinter, a mad Texas multimillionaire (Ed Begley), who is operating a private CIA against Russia, coordinated by a giant walk-in computer complex-the billion-dollar brain...