Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psychological Hangover. By far the commonest reason, wherever the law is liberally construed, is not the physical condition of the mother-to-be but her mental state. Many pregnant women insist that if they are forced to carry and bear an unwanted child, they will go mad or commit suicide. The majority who claim this are married women who have had as many children as they want. Few of those who see their pregnancies through ever suffer from mental breakdowns; similarly, few who get legal abortions are left with a severe psychological scar. But psychiatrists and other doctors tend...
This resolutely useless information is published in one of the year's most peculiar and fascinating books, an encyclopedia of logology assembled by a stark-raving logomaniac named Dmitri Alfred Borgmann, a Chicago actuary whose name, when its letters are transposed, spells "damn mad boring trifler." Boring he is not. Among his offerings...
HELP! The Beatles are back-pursued on sea and ski by bloodthirsty Orientals and mad scientists through some of the wildest sight gags this side of the Marx Brothers...
...stood eminently in line for his medal, since he had won minor prizes at the Carnegie International in 1958 and the Venice Biennale in 1960. One of the many European art brut abstractionists who explored the beauties of raw texture after World War II, Burri makes a sort of mad Braille with collages of blistered burlap (called sacco), charred wood (combustioni), and lately, slashed and melted sheets of colored plastic. How to make an esthetic of ugliness is his prime concern, but in the fresh face of contemporary attempts to create more colorful and realistic art, Burri's tortured...
Here the Beatles are pursued by a band of bloodthirsty Orientals bent on making a human sacrifice out of Ringo, who has become inextricably attached to a mysterious ring. There they are superpursued by a mad scientist who is convinced that the ring will enable him to rule the world. Between here and there, the Beatles romp triumphantly through trap doors, poison gas, poisoned arrows, death rays, flamethrowers, shrinking drugs, a man-eating tiger and a men's-room hand dryer that goes into reverse with suction so strong that it pulls the plumbing off the walls...