Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other end of the spectrum you'll find the irrepressible KITTY HAAS. Bubbling over with her usual enthusiasm, Kitty breathlessly speaks of the "mad, wild things" she is selling in her new shop on 42a Brattle Street. (A fire on Dec. 31st destroyed everything, so she has begun again from scratch.) Kitty prides herself on her fabrics, imported from the oddest countries. What she calls her "new, darling designs" turn out to be merely a modified and more sophisticated A-line. She has a shepherdess's dress complete with plunge which should be interesting. Kitty and her "fantastic seamstress" will...
...Irving Berlin mad when he saw the issue of Mad magazine billed as The Fourth Annual Edition of More Trash from Mad? Mad or not, he sued. In a section headed "Sing Along with Mad" appeared parodies of numerous popular songs, including some of Berlin's best-known hits. A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody had been transmogrified into Louella Schwartz Describes Her Malady, and The Girl That I Marry into: The horse that I'm betting will have to be A sprinter that wins with consistency...
...been done. Said the opinion written by Judge Irving R. Kaufman: "Through depression and boom, war and peace, Tin Pan Alley has light-heartedly insisted that 'the whole world laughs' with a laugher, and that 'the best things in life are free.' " The suit against Mad is "an apparent departure from these delightful sentiments." Parodists, said Judge Kaufman, must be permitted to borrow from the original, or else there could be no parody. "While the social interest in encouraging the broad-gauged burlesques of Mad magazine is admittedly not readily apparent, we believe that parody...
Courts have held that a parodist is infringing on a copyright if he carries the borrowing to excess, but Mad's barely recognizable parodies of the song lyrics, said Kaufman, fell within the traditional "fair use" rule. It could hardly be considered unfair that the Mad versions were cast in the same meter as the original lyrics: "We doubt that even so eminent a composer as Irving Berlin should be permitted to claim a property interest in iambic pentameter...
Presumably, the foundation screened all the pictures they prized, but viewed collectively, the winning films are a varietal riot. Some are mad, some methodical. Some are suitable for the living room and others for a smoker at the Elks. This one is conventional. That one is wildly experimental. This honest. That phony. How one panel of judges could have agreed on the twelve grantees defeats the unfoundationed imagination...