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Word: madding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the time, Joan Foster is the quietly unremarkable wife of a humorless student radical. In odd stolen hours, she plays mistress to an avant-garde artist who serves as a kind of latter-day Mad Hatter. From both husband and lover, Joan cleverly hides two secret shames: the fact that she produces feverishly romantic gothic novels and her pre-diet-pill memories of a miserably obese childhood. Both are telltale signs of a temperament too florid to suit the doctrinaire, modernist tastes of the men now in her life. One day, seized by a fit of automatic writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Motley with Method | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Although descriptions of Fenway Park vary, nearly all try to capture its quality of excitement. Sports Illustrated once characterized it as "a jewel of a place" and "all you ever wanted in a ball park--and less." Former Boston Globe sportswriter Peter Gammons called it "mad, sensuous Fenway...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Fenway Park: The mystique lives on in Boston's Back Bay | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

...last major league appearance in 1959, Ted Williams drilled a line drive into the right-field bullpen for a home run, capping one of the greatest careers either the park or the game had ever seen. The crowd erupted in hysteria; but, then, this was mad, sensuous Fenway...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Fenway Park: The mystique lives on in Boston's Back Bay | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

HARRY CROSBY, scion of a proper Boston family, had already been living a mad and extravagant life for some years when he sent this cable to his irate father. Evidently, it was beginning to pale; just a few moments after he sent the cable, Crosby, a professional eccentric and would-be poet, discontinued his calculatedly scandalous life in favor of a mad and extravagant death. A compulsive seeker after new sensations, Crosby had already exhausted almost everything else in the way of the exotic, the extreme and the self-consciously decadent when he was found in 1929 in a friend...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Epitaph For the Sun | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...anxious to get off the beaten path, you should be following the Harvard Premiere Society--that's its specialty. The Premiere Society was originally founded as a vehicle for the talented Philip LaZebnik '76, who was having trouble getting his new musical Mad About Mintz produced by Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid. Under the society's auspices, Mintz finally made it onto the Agassiz stage, and the rest is Harvard theater history. Last year the Premiere Society sponsored what turned out to be the hottest show in town: Do It Yourself, a collage of skits and songs written by Harvard students...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Stage | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

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