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Word: madding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grantham said he was "mad as hell" that Nunziata brought the issue before the Canadian House of Commons. "Nunzita called it 'Fossilgate,' but it was just the way science works," he said...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: Dinosaur Digger Unearths `Fossilgate' | 5/14/1986 | See Source »

Curry was the mad scientist of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, resplendent in black satin and bad manners. Here he is a figure of more majestic maleficence. Sprawling in the lubricious gloom of his lair, he looks like a huge Naugahyde goat demon who has been flayed and candied, then served sweet- and-sour at a Chinese restaurant in Middle-Earth. "I require the solace of shadows," he purrs to the benighted Lili. "Neath the skin, we are already one." And he leads her into a dance that black magically turns this virgin into Salome, fit for a satyr king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pictures At an Exhibition Legend | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...While Mad Matisse Dances Dostoyevski...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: A Fatal Mistake | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...drone endlessly, eyes glazed and fingers fidgeting, in a voice that ought to earn him the name Cyrano de Sinusitus. But once he's roused from this topor by the approach of a good joke, Roe becomes an adrenalin-charged humor dynamo, leaping and cavorting about the stage. His mad attack upon the lascivious Comte de Guiche (Jeff Rosen) and his introduction to Christian (Ted Dane) are both superb, hinting at a potentially brilliant performance that got sidetracked along...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Nose Has It | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

Tripoli also claimed that it had knocked as many as a dozen U.S. aircraft out of the skies, and that surviving pilots were being hunted down by local citizens "like mad dogs." Authorities made no attempt to prove either claim, but few Libyans expected Gaddafi to let matters rest where they stood. Nor did those on the front line of the U.S. side seem to think that last week's raid put an end to the contest of wills between Gaddafi and Washington. On the day after the raid, TIME Correspondent Sam Allis noticed that someone had scrawled a message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Dead of the Night | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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