Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pick it up.' " Tinker insists there was no altruism in his strategy. "You're spending less money," he notes, "when you stick with the stuff you bought in the first place." As it happened, NBC's quality shows, however low-rated, were attracting what advertisers call a quality audience. Mad. Ave. ad mavens were discovering that a rule long applied to magazines--that 1,000 New Yorker readers are more valuable than 1,000 National Enquirer readers--made sense in prime time as well. Says Tartikoff: "When you pull a tab on the St. Elsewhere audience, you find that many...
...every Warner's cartoon is so heavy on the cordite and flying feathers. Some go in for the big soulful eyes, pastel prettiness and comforting moral of the traditional Disney cartoon. Feed the Kitty (1952), the acme of Jones' career, is a fable about a bulldog who falls into mad maternal love over a winsome kitten. But even in Warner's usually violent cat-eat-bird, rabbit- humiliate-duck world, character is at the base of the comedy. Each nuance of eyebrow makes Bugs' almost inhuman sangfroid seem more endearing; each microsecond of exasperated deadpan underlines Daffy's status...
...test of wills that ends in a draw, with Tom reciting Chairman Mao's aphorisms (they sound like the text of a self-help book to him), his tormentors marching into battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds martial to them). Beth is abducted by a mad CIA operative and offered as harem material to the nearest warlord- opium smuggler-defender of democracy. But Lawrence has time to save Tom's soul and Beth's body, open a nightclub, direct the hearts and minds of the natives as they build a bridge they do not need and teach...
...been mad ever since I saw it on the news last night, when he came out smiling and said he won," said one of the four female jurors, who asked not to be quoted by name...
...version of Lord of the Flies. A tribe of deserted children enact with Durkheimian accuracy the ritual of their history for Max, then declare him to be their messiah. Max finds this scene to be quite annoying, as does the audience. Max states himself what the focus of a Mad Max movie should be when he declares that he is not a childrens' messiah, but rather, "the guy who keeps Mr. Death in his pocket." (Would that the directors had kept to that focus...