Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kael this is another form of Madison Avenud militancy, which flatters youth with a new cosmetic image, and is more irresponsible than the old formulas of Doris Dayland banality. For the message movies tune their politics to an ad man's pitch. They mainline the message "America is all crap" and project an American self-hatred not only on the present but on the past (Tell Them Willie Boy is Here). They pat you on the back for paranoia with pictures of a world pitted against you. And by leaving you with the feeling that the only thing left...
...Patrick Henry and Tom Paine, and the sentencing and life imprisonment of the bumbler Washington. Sobel, professor of history at New College, Hempstead, N.Y., goes on to describe the formation under the Crown's benevolent authority of the Confederation of North America with Burgoyne as first viceroy. Hamilton, Madison, Nathanael Green and the other irreconcilable dissidents lead thousands of former rebels on what was to be remembered as the Wilderness Walk. It was an exodus to the new and forbidding lands of the Southwest, where, in 1782, the survivors founded the new nation of Jefferson. There follows, naturally enough...
Imagine life as a sneaker-shod Dionysian ballet, reeling from the Marx Brothers to Samuel Beckett, from Madison Avenue to the groves of academe, from the incontinence of diaper days to the impotence of a palsied hand of poker in an old folks' death house. That will give you some brief notion of Dr. Hero. Yes, the central figure is our old friend and sometime bore, Everyman; but dismiss your initial, legitimate worries. This Everyman is no gullible Candide looking for the best of all possible worlds, no dour Diogenes straining for a glimpse of an honest...
...board of professors into giving him his doctorate after an absurd display of bogus scholarship. One dotty, dozing old Dickensian expert confuses every fifth or sixth line of dialogue with the title of a Dickens novel, which is fairly hilarious all by itself. Another laugh-bulging scene is a Madison Avenue group-think probe, complete with gestures à la charades, as to why a cleaning company's detergent spray produces mud when a housewife uses...
Eastern Conference playoff action in the NBA will begin tonight, with the New York Knicks taking on the Baltimore Bullets in Madison Square Garden...