Word: madman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a large-caliber revolver, headed straight for that pantheon Americans have reserved for those with the balls to wreak sudden death on a large scale. Perhaps he was caught, perhaps he would--eventually--have to pay. But before that, Berkowitz knew, he could sit back and flash his madman's smirk, while helping lots of other people to collect...
...from grace. They treat Herbert just as harshly. The father's teachings, according to Report, "have caused suicides, bankruptcies and hundreds of premature deaths. They have broken up thousands of happy marriages." Chess Genius and sometime Disciple Bobby Fischer was quoted as saying that Herbert "is simply a madman who would love to rule the world. He continuously tries to frighten and panic you about the supposed imminent end of the world-so that you will empty your bank account before...
...first major album. Zevon sings songs of madness and delight, all about spies and mercenaries, traitors and lost lovers, spooks, werewolves and other halfway creatures of the night. Quite characteristically, his "excitable boy" shows up in the title cut (co-written with Marinell) transformed into a raging madman, whose exploits are chronicled with sardonic relish...
Amid the Bruin carnage, with Harvard leading 66-32, Coach Bill McCurdy was jokingly asked if Doug Terry, the Brown coach, had been gracious enough to deliver his concession. "Well, he'd be a madman if he didn't," McCurdy exclaimed, pointing out that the score required only three more points for the Crimson to clinch the meet...
...solution. In one passage Lewis rejects the "foolish" idea that Jesus was just a "great moral teacher." No, he says, this was One who claimed to forgive sins and declared that he would judge the world. "Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman...