Word: madding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...troupe also represents the terrifying mob. They can loll about disinterestedly, and then be seized by frenzied fits. As one patient suddenly bursts out, "Man is a mad animal." He growls and flails his arms and butts the nurses and nuns, yelping, "I'm a thousand years old and I've commited a million murders--prisons don't help, chains don't help...I'm not through yet...I've got plans...
...Harvard Coach Edie Mabrey said after the game, "It's time to stop feeling sorry for ourselves; I told them they shouldn't be sad, they ought to be mad...
...grow up. And the hooker-dominatrix is really a dark angel who gives herself whole-bodied to her clients' midnight dreams. No less, Turner throws herself headfirst into the film, hyperventilating on the medium's potential for erogenous adventure. This is a clever, daring, mad performance in a movie that is just as reckless. Crimes of Passion and its more lurid brethren in the skin trade are not for everyone, but they should at least be available for any consenting adult to savor or condemn. The porn vigilantes ignore two important partners in a work of fiction...
This, not the madman of legend, was the real and visionary Van Gogh. The notion that his paintings were "mad" is the most idiotic of all impediments to understanding them. It was Van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if "sanity" is to be denned in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis. All the signs of extreme feeling in Van Gogh were tempered by his longing for concision and grace. Those who imagine that he just sat down in cornfields...
...attentions of Count Albrecht, a nobleman disguised in peasant garb. While her insistence on dancing threatens her health, Giselle is finally overcome after learning her lover's true identity. As it turns out, he is not only a count, but he is betrothed to another woman. Appropriately, Giselle goes mad and dies of a broken heart...