Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reaganauts see Star Wars as opening the door to a new, more hopeful form of deterrence. At present, nuclear peace paradoxically depends on "mutually assured destruction" (MAD): an attack by one side guarantees a devastating counterattack. Star Wars, argues McFarlane, would obviate the need for this balance of terror. Says he: "You would move away from a strategy based on the ability to threaten with offensive power to greater reliance upon systems that don't threaten anybody." A switch from offensive to defensive deterrence would indeed be a radical change, but not necessarily for the better. Since it is hard...
KING LEAR (syndicated). In what may prove to be his last great role, Laurence Olivier acts up a storm--and, in the heath scene, outacts one--scaling the majesty of Shakespeare's mad monarch. Will this Lear be surpassed on TV? Never, never, never, never, never...
There were other blinding flashes of fear: diplomats cut down on fashionable European streets, mines strewn in the Red Sea, even the awards ceremony for Nobel Peace Prizewinner Bishop Desmond Tutu disrupted by a bomb threat. From the elegant Libyan embassy on a leafy London square, a mad spray of gunfire aimed at marching dissidents killed a young British policewoman. Muammar Gaddafi's murderous schemes embarrassed him when Egyptian authorities faked the death of a former Libyan Prime Minister marked for extinction by Tripoli. Gaddafi took responsibility for the assassination that never...
LAUGHING STOCK. At 54, Romulus Linney remains one of the American theater's mysteriously buried treasures. In this off-Broadway evening of three short plays, especially the masterly centerpiece F.M., Linney exhibited deft portraits of the half mad in which not a line was misplaced or wasted...
...Kasim. Indeed, Jewel presents a teeming society of outcasts-spinsters, exiles, maiden aunts and homosexuals for whom the Empire was a kind of straitjacket. As the end of an era approaches and the series wends its way through breakdowns both civil and nervous, one character after another implodes, goes mad, turns mute or sets her life aflame...