Word: madding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest marked the third straight Saturday in which the Crimson's fate had come down to the final 30 seconds, but, for once, the mad, capricious script left Harvard on top. The Crimson now stands 4-3-1, 2-3-1 Ivy, while Penn falls...
...plot of Superman smacks of what we have all sopped up since age seven from DC Comics. All the familiar characters are there, along with a few new faces--Max Mencken (remember H.L.) the sleazy reporter for the Daily Planet; Dr. Abner Sedgwick, a frustrated mad scientist from the Metropolis Institute of Technology (MIT); and the Flying Lings, a threesome of oriental acrobats...
Sedgwick, the villainous "ten-time Nobel prize loser," seeks to ruin Superman's reputation in Metropolis. Strongly played by Fred Barton, the mad doctor epitomizes nurdiness; he is the science wonk par excellence, dressed in white lab coat, sneakers, and ABC sportscaster's plaid pants. One of the best moments in the play comes when Sedgwick daintily galivants across the stage, trilling his song "Revenge," and rolling the "r" at each refrain...
...years and countless albums and groups later, I feel so twisted, so confused and maze-mad; "Rock'n'Roll Nigger" Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen and Lou Reed slip through the rock world of packaging-marketing-publicity and make me want to tear down buildings like I did when I first heard The Who and The Stones (but their music--ah, the beauty of it--consumed that urge...
...protest vote, but not only that," said one back-room Liberal pol. "It was a personal defeat for Trudeau." Canadians are hopping mad at the state of their economy after ten years of his party's rule. Inflation is running at a rate of 8.6% annually; unemployment, at 8.5%, is at the highest level since 1940; and the value of the Canadian dollar has plummeted from $1.03 U.S. to a spindly 840 in the past 23 months. The federal government is running a deficit that is expected to reach at least $11.8 billion this year, and Canadians, like many...