Word: madding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cahaly's and buy two packs of Bee's playing cards. They have to be Bee's. "As soon as a card looks slightly ratty we throw out the deck. We were burning something like 14 decks a night. The janitor who emptied the waste-baskets was going mad," the "Emperor" explained...
...film is hardly a cry in the wilderness for intemperance. It ends on a slight touch of sadness, with both men realizing that liquor provides only temporary escape from a world as dismal as Tigreville. But along the way, there are some wonderfully mad, hilarious sprees. Belmondo is particularly fine playing matador to a highway full of cars...
...winter had been cruelly severe even by Siberian standards. Russia's rickety railroads were no longer able to funnel sufficient food into the cities, and bread lines in the capital of Petrograd (now Leningrad) grew longer each day. The orgies and intrigues of the Czarina's mad mystic Rasputin had riven Nicholas II's court. It was in this chill ambiance of discontent and deprivation that, 50 years ago this week, a revolution that began almost casually in Petrograd swept out the Czar and changed the course of Russian and modern history...
...bomb movement, was arrested four times during demonstrations, stood up before a rally in Castro-style battle dress and sang a Cuban revolutionary song. Sometimes Vanessa suffers for her romantic impetuosity, but then, as Corin points out, "Vanessa likes to suffer." She transforms her sufferings into performances. "She is mad," Sir Michael says, "I mean divinely mad. She is an inspired actress...
Died. Mischa Auer, 61, character actor who played seedy aristocrats, slightly frayed remittance men, or mad Cossacks in scores of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s (My Man Godfrey, Destry Rides Again), the orphaned son of a czarist naval officer, who at one point during the Bolshevik revolution roamed Russia with a pack of parentless children before a grandfather brought him to the U.S., eventually made his way to Hollywood, where his borsch-and-sour-cream accent and rolling-eyed comedy won him fame; of a heart attack; in Rome...