Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HELP! The new ring on Ringo's finger puts him in double jeopardy from a couple of mad scientists and a band of Oriental cutthroats. The result is a wild spin cycle of sight gags and exotic locations. The Beatles really haven't much to do except romp along with the frantic action...
...Chief Minister Mackawee, declaring that Britain "has gone mad and lost all her sense of proportion," flew to Cairo for consultations with a certain party. This week he flies on to New York to plead his case for independence at the U.N. Back home, Aden's powerful (22,000-member) Trades Union Congress, led by one of Nasser's fondest admirers, called for a general strike "by every laborer, merchant, student and farmer-a day for remembering our martyrs and hailing the exiled"-and at week's end police were forced to quell striking rioters with tear...
...Godard's point will probably escape his American audience. For the city of Alphaville is not just any city of the future; it is Paris, perverted by Americanization, the city of light turned fluorescent. A mad scientist from New York, Dr. Von Braun, has imposed the computer on the helpless Alphavillians. Only another New Yorker, like Caution, can cope with such an environment...
...with visits until she invited him to bed down with her, has reincarnated himself in the body of a certain Count Heinrich. The count has been more receptive to her favors but now he, too, has angelically gone and deserted her. The following four acts are one long mad scene as Renata pursues the count through the back alleys of her subconscious. Along the way, there are magic potions, a séance, rattling skeletons, a furry sorcerer and assorted gnomes to contend with. Even Faustus and Mephistopheles, coming on like a netherworld Frick & Frack, get into the act. Mephistopheles...
...worth. "The most interesting thing about El Cordobés' bullfights is the crowd," says AntÓnio DÍaz-Cañabate, one of Spain's most fastidious critics. "They don't care at all about bullfighting. They want to go mad in the physical presence of a fetish...