Word: madding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles Correspondent James Willwerth, who covered the activities of the Muppets on the West Coast, had the pleasantly eerie sensation that he had wandered into a different world, a kind of Disneyland as imagined by Mad magazine. "Everyone needs a dose of cartoon fun at regular intervals," says Willwerth, "but cartoons without subtlety can be pretty flat, and the Muppets have something extra that leapfrogs- forgive the pun-over the virtues of human acting...
SELLARS makes do far better than most directors do: he pokes incessantly at the perimeters of his playing area, his actors drenching his audience, or leading it out of the room altogether, into Rome (A-entry of Adams House) where power-mad politicians parade around in squares as they speak, and Antony no sooner marries a mummified Octavia than she is cast off into an echoing isolation chamber...
...Mad, you say? Perhaps we were mad. Perhaps anyone who seeks to find the realization of a dream in this workd is mad. No matter. It made perfect sense to us at the time, after countless Christmases of finding cheap and gaudy trinkets to give away, or of finding only simply good deals, not The deal...
...Core bulled its way into April, carrying the rest of us along with it, but it was hardly the only distraction. Nothing so structured, so rational, could dominate for long; the world needs too much room in which to go mad. This little island in Cambridge, rising with calm through the storm, still could not but hear the raging of the elements outside: Lebanon, Palestine and Italy, where Aldo Moro's bodyguards lay dead, and where Moro himself would, after a series of pathetic letters, pay the Red Brigades' price. No comfort there; the outside looked ugly...
...followers show their awe and affection for him, even when they were uncomfortable with his actions. He looms over them not as an autocrat, but as a beneficent master. We may call him sick and ruthless, yet we must admit he held some uncanny attractiveness--and he hardly seems mad, at least not until his last days in Jonestown...