Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGH SPIRITS. As a spirit brought back to haunt her husband by means of a slapstick séance conducted by mad Bea Lillie, impish Tammy Grimes is about as ghostly grey as a rainbow...
Last week the civil rights filibuster became the longest in Senate history,* and Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, the bill's floor manager, was mad. "The whole procedure is disgusting," he cried. "All that is being accomplished here is a display of adult delinquency. Any intransigent minority can run the Senate if a majority stands around with jelly for a spine...
...customers got bored with movies that cried werewolf, got fascinated with atomic-age monsters like The Blob, The Thing, The Great Green Og, and a colossal purple caterpillar filled with green radioactive goo. In the '60s, the fashion in fright has become eclectic: mad scientists, mole people, teen-aged werewolves and creatures from outer space have all done a bloody good business. And recently the technicians of terror have also produced a peculiar breed of hybrid horrors that mingle maniacs and muscles, gore and giggles, and even set monstrosity to music. Some recent screami...
...inexplicably looks just like his old self. To keep the movie's audience from straying out for a smoke, there are some stunning pyrotechnics, views of the rugged Spanish landscape and -at last-the ghastly terrain of Sullivan's singed face, done to a turn by a mad makeup artist...
Murderers and motorcyclists are so mad about gloves that they wear them the whole year round. Others, less smitten, don them only in the winter, for warmth, or on the job (doormen, surgeons, morticians, ushers), to impress a boss (secretarial applicants who cannot type), keep up appearances (debutantes and chauffeurs), curry favor (prospective brides brought home to tea with prospective mothers-in-law). Once considered standard everyday attire, and the only way to get a decent duel going, nowadays no one but a grandmother likes to wear gloves...