Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After almost 165 years' absence, eighteenth-century Britain has returned to Boston. The reigning monarch, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, now holds court at the Charles Playhouse, and his evening revels contain the funniest antics since George III went mad...
Broadway was Runyon's country. In his other career as a short-story writer, he peopled the Great White Way with a tender host of Guys and Dolls -Harry the Horse, Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Mad ame LaGimp, a long parade of gold-hearted touts, pimps and whores...
Hello Sonny. All of which helped hypo the gate and make Sonny Listen mad. One after another, would-be spar-mates showed up at the Listen camp, figuring to pick up an easy $250 a week waltzing with the challenger. One after another, Listen packed them off to the hospital-one with badly bruised ribs, another with a cut that took eight stitches to close. "No more of this ain't gonna happen to me," muttered Alonzo Johnson, the seventh to quit. The hero of the hour was a pug named "Big Train" Lincoln, who managed to absorb...
...very mad, very English, and very nearly preposterous. But for viewers eager to empty their minds and concentrate on such creepy business, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes (The L-Shaved Room) works an aura of disaster into every nook and passageway of a turreted old mansion. As the demented psychic, Myra, Kim Stanley manages so many subtle shifts of mood that she seems simultaneously sweet, bitchy, poignant, and a deadly menace. The kidnap scene is a cinematic whirlwind, with the camera cutting and lashing across the landscape to build to a moment of crisis when the victim (Judith Donner) locks herself...
...important Consequences and so lasting, that I cannot but consider it as an Epoch in History. . ." In London William Pitt was one of the few men who shared the clarity of Adams' vision; in opposing the Boston Port Bill, one of the Coercive Acts, he prophesied that "if that mad and cruel measure should be pushed. . . England has seen her best days." Most Englishmen disagreed: "They will be Lyons whilst we are Lambs, but if we take the resolute part they will undoubtedly prove very meek." The "resolute part" was taken, making the Revolution inevitable...