Word: madding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar. Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill and a thousand others have been here before, and one wonders why Widmark isn't indulging in similar eye-rolling or stuttering. Crichton forces him to become a stoic zombie, as if to hide what this really is--a hokey mad-doctor scene--and thus robs it of all possible fun. Coma could use lines like, "You think I'm m-m-mad, don't you?" because without them there's no reason for seeing the movie--it doesn't move very fast, the sluggish climax lets you down, and there...
This Saturday the women's fencing team faces Dartmouth and the Big Green may suffer the consequences of the anger pent up inside the Crimson after last night's close victory. Indeed Lowry predicted Harvard "is gonna kill Dartmouth this weekend. Everybody's mad...
Though Feraud's mania never subsides, and though D'Hubert thinks him contemptible, the two are bound together in something that is almost comradeship. The mad intensity of their relationship burns away what in another film would be the excess of landscapes too beautifully framed and interiors too cunningly photographed. The Duellists uses the beauty of the French landscape to comment gently on the frenzy of the men bloodying themselves in its soft fields. In the end, after a resolution of sorts has been achieved between the two men, Feraud stands, back to the camera, looking...
...last bit of rancid emotion should have been drained away. But this is a Conrad tale, and obsession rules. The rigid set of Feraud's shoulders tells the absurd, almost admirable truth: he is just as mad as ever...
What they are mad about is a decision by the P.G.A.'s tournament policy board to narrow the lifetime unlimited exemption that traditionally spared all pre-1970 winners of the U.S. Open and P.G.A. Championship from having to qualify to enter tournaments.* Under the new rule announced last November and scheduled to take effect in 1979, that privilege is not automatic. Regardless of past glories, the old pros must earn an annual minimum (an average of $667 for each of the first 15 tournaments entered) or else be forced into the field of "rabbits" who spend the first...