Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equal partner, a gregarious man with an exceptional command of details, has been the hands-on operator. The unusual alliance has not been broken in 40 years. "We have never had an argument," Larry Tisch claims. "There's no reason to show temper. I don't get mad." When Bob became Postmaster General last month, the partnership was temporarily scuttled. Many of the Loews president's responsibilities will probably be assumed by the next generation of Tisches: one of Bob's sons and three of Larry's four sons all work for the family company...
...slew of ready disciples. "By 1960 you had a whole generation who knew nothing about drugs, and what little they did know came from people who didn't know anything about drugs either," says Historian Musto. "When people found out that marijuana didn't drive you wild and mad, the Government lost what little credibility...
...that many kids will want to buy this duck. The movie is too scuzzy to beguile children, too infantile to appeal to adults. Its humor is sub-Mad: Howard (played by Actor Ed Gale, and some other small people, in a duck suit, with Chip Zien providing the voice) is a master of "quack fu" who reads Rolling Egg and DQ magazines. He grows angry: "No more Mr. Nice Duck." He waxes philosophic: "No duck is an island." When the filmmakers grow tired of fowl puns -- about an hour after the audience does -- they switch to space opera, and Howard...
...allow women to fight, though it does accept women and children as craftspeople and water carriers, which would have been their roles in the 18th century. "Most working-class women of the 18th century were virtually treated as beasts of burden," explains National Commander George Woodbridge, an artist for Mad magazine...
...local boosters who feel that no city can call itself big league without a pro-football team. More than mere football, the struggle was redolent of the battles among 19th century steel and rail barons, who paid lip service to the virtues of free markets and then fought like mad to corner them...