Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon. Newlyweds Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford are handsome enough to model for any refrigerator ad, but their apartment-and its visitors-are mad, mad, mad, mad, mad...
...sick cows well merely by thinking about them, hunted oil with "black-box" divining devices, financed expeditions (unsuccessful) to find the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas and the animal that left a legendary footprint in the woods of California. Mrs. Clara Driscoll, a socialite and political manipulator, got so mad at the service in Corpus Christi's White Plaza Hotel that she vowed: "I'll build a hotel right beside the White Plaza. I'll build it taller, and I'll stand on top of my hotel and spit on the White Plaza." She built...
...course, he is quite mad. With a heart torn by Angst for the decadence of the age, and a head full of apocalyptic hope, Brown keeps waiting for men from space to land on earth and solve all our problems with their miraculous source of power and wisdom. Through a mysterious, never elucidated grapevine, he gets word that the landing may soon occur in the tiny desert town of Twelvepalms, Arizona. Quitting his job and dodging inquisitive security men, he rushes off to meet THEM...
...impending space visitors are far from the familiar three-eyed monsters of science fiction. Instead they are a race of supermen, perhaps descended from the inhabitants of the lost island of Atlantis (they were thought to have possessed flying machines, and so might have migrated to another planet). With mad logic, Brown's fellow fantasists have built a fabric of proof by linking together all manner of telltale occurrences, past and present-the disappearance of a man here, a successful experiment in levitation there, flying saucers, of course, and reports of fresh fish falling inexplicably on land (obviously droppings...
Filtered through the mad wit of Billy Brown, these grotesque gyrations sometimes threaten to spin out of control into pure centrifugal farce. But at his best Novelist Miller has come close to creating a comic epic celebrating the lunatic fringes of a genuine American phenomenon-a young nation's yearning for final answers and impossible perfections, its fears that a great dream has somehow been laid waste in the pillaging of a rich continent for material wellbeing...