Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watch closely, for in the wink of a camera's eye he is going to be a furious Customs inspector whose bite is worse than his bark. Or a homosexual lisping his way past a posh club's maître d' with a particularly mad invention. Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto. But as befits a manchild of the soft-spoken '80s, there is an insinuating sweetness about the heart that is always visible...
November in America is a time when certain sportsmen go mad for ducks and geese. The flyways are thick with, among other fowl, honkers coming down out of Canada. The season is on, and something rises in the blood of the hunter. It is a passion, remarked upon most lyrically by Ernest Hemingway, who once recalled, "That is the first thing I remember of ducks; the whistly, silk tearing sound the fast wingbeats make; just as what you remember first of geese is how slow they seem to go when they are traveling, and yet they are moving so fast...
...some of the real computer whiz kids are finally getting their due. In a new book called Hackers (Doubleday; $17.95), Writer Steven Levy argues that these "science-mad people" are the true heroes of the computer revolution. He traces the history of hackers from M.I.T.'s Tech Model Railroad Club, their first mecca, to Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club, an early microcomputer gathering spot, to a video-game factory in Coarsegold, Calif. Through it all he discerns a common thread: the unspoken assumption among crack computer programmers and engineers that they could straighten out the world...
Dakin Williams, who was left only $25,000 by his brother, claimed that others had undue influence on his brother's writing of the will, that his brother was not competent when he wrote the will, and that his brother was mad at him because he (Dakin Williams) had put Tennesse Williams in an alcoholic rehabilitation center in the 1960s, Watson said...
...beicha! Really pissed. None of them are talking to one another, and name of them's even interested in decontructionism. And they're mad as hell at both the union and the university, just like we wanted...