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Word: madding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similarly, Harvard should make a much greater effort to provide terminals and computers in the Houses in order to loosen the strain on the central system and the inevitable mad crush in the basement of the Science Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Fairness Issue | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...mediocrity is the natural condition of humankind, then genius is the purest and rarest of diseases. Tortured writers, earless painters, mad scientists all live inside the quarantine of their own superiority, distanced by their difference from the world they illuminate and help-recreate. To 19th century romantics the genius was a superman; to most of us today he may seem both more and less than human, an idiot savant, a freak of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mozart's Greatest Hit | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

They sure did ? more than 40% out of an average combined income of $173,000 a year. (Instead of a telephoned apology, Will sent a dozen pink roses and a note: "Has anyone told you that you are cute when you're mad?" Ferraro's reply: "Vice Presidents are not cute.") The couple declared a net worth of $3.78 million, nearly all of it in real estate. They did not release copies of the IRS forms that Zaccaro files in connection with his businesses. Only those documents, experts say, would depict the full scope of his holdings and financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show and Tell | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...same time," he explains.) The choice of questions to be included depends entirely on their creators' reaction to them. "We trust each other's opinions," Chris says. "If everyone laughs, it's a winner. If half the room laughs and the other half is mad, it's probably still a winner because it's controversial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pac-Man for Smart People | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...born actor who chose a "rather mad way of throwing away his theater career," said Gielgud last week. Burton's friends had been telling him that for years. It was advice he did not want to take. "I rather like my reputation, actually," he said when he turned 50. "That of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer. It's rather an attractive image." Some measure out their lives with coffee spoons; Burton, like his friend and fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas, poured his out by the bucketful until, at last, there was nothing left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Mellifluous Prince of Disorder | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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