Word: madman
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Like Sergei Eisenstein's film classic-the score is based largely on Prokofiev's music for that movie-the ballet is an episodic, ponderously romanticized narrative about Czar Ivan IV. A madman and a tyrant, Ivan fought the feudal boyar nobles as well as invading enemies and managed to unite Russia during the 16th century. There are scenes evoking his struggle with the nobles, lyrical moments of happiness with his first wife, Anastasia, plotting by the boyars and the duplicitous Prince Kurbsky, who tries to destroy Ivan by poisoning his queen. After her death, the Czar...
...begun in a sense by one madman, John Brown, and ended by another, John Wilkes Booth, as Foote says. At any rate, it introduced modern America. Perhaps it was a sardonic premonition that after Lee and Grant met at Appomattox, souvenir hunters wrecked the house where the surrender was signed...
...audience, frightens the women, describes instead the physiology of rape in such heated detail that tremblings because of the shots are replaced with giggles. He asks for a volunteer from the audience and proceeds to use her as what might be called a rape object. He is rather a madman...
There was relief, too, because the withdrawal reduced the possibility that some madman might attempt a third Kennedy assassination. By coincidence, word leaked out last week that both the Boston police and Secret Service had been warned of a plot to kidnap either of the two Robert Kennedy sons attending Harvard. At President Ford's direction, they were temporarily placed under Secret Service protection; only President Kennedy's 13-year-old son legally qualifies for such surveillance...
KISSINGER: The CIA had nothing to do with the coup to the best of my knowledge and belief, and I only put in that qualification in case some madman appears down there who without instructions talked to somebody. I have absolutely no reason to suppose it. [Deleted...