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Word: madding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grisly murder case he is investigating, he can't wait to get to her. The feeling must be mutual: before making love to Frank, she strips off her red jacket with the urgency of a lifeguard en route to a rescue. They fight viciously, then lurch into a mad pash. She solders herself to his back; she climbs the wall, elevated by lust. Later, Frank awakes dazed and guesses, "I must have fainted. I'm gonna have to be airlifted to the standing position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Barkin Up the Right Tree | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Peter Hirsch is a superb male lead, juggling the roles of the emcee, the game-show host, Dodgson, the Mad Hatter, Lewis Carroll, Karpov and Humpty Dumpty. His timing is impecca ble and his versatility, in all of his capabilities, is astounding...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: A Modern Looking Glass | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

...moping dogs -- after Ralph Waldo Emerson's lines: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Metaphors of The World, Unite! | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...insist if SPIL is to continue to exist--and we would prefer that it dissolve and go away--that students sit on the side of the owners at the same time," Natale said. "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more, and we're absolutely dead serious about that...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Property Owners to Picket Law Group | 10/10/1989 | See Source »

Boasting titles including Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk, Revolution in Poetic Language and the World Almanac of 1974, the Widener Library tradition is perfect for book lovers...

Author: By Therese M. Flynn, | Title: Students Hunt for Bargains at Book Sale | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

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