Word: madman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gratifyingly, the show is stolen by two who manage to evade death until near the end. As Sir Lawrence Wargrave, a notorious "hanging judge," Woody Hill paces through his scenes like a hawk, interrogating other characters in courtroom style and calmly remarking, "We've been invited here by a madman, probably homicidal." Miss Vera Claythorne (Reid Cottingham) uses physical objects perfectly, obsessively adjusting the rings on her finger and hovering in the background with a cigarette like an angel of death...
...obstinately sustained lyricism. She keeps up the mood of Apollonian pleasure so well that one may think of Edmund Wilson's satire The Omelet of A. MacLeish, whose hero's well-made tropes "gleamed in the void, and evoked approbation and wonder/ That a poet need not be a madman, or even a bounder...
...supposedly fueled the State Department's economic sanctions. Now, the election frauds are an excuse for potentially delaying or even cancelling the transfer of Canal rights to their rightful owners. Already, U.S. Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) has decried the treaty's promise to return the Canal to "a madman like Noriega...
When he first got to Paris, Kelly holed up in a small hotel, sharing a tiny room with a 6-ft. 2-in. model named Kim ("Her feet stuck out from the end of the bed"). He sewed like a madman, buying only enough fabric to make the next dress. From selling clothes at a flea market, he progressed to making costumes for a discotheque and, with the help of his business partner, Bjorn Amelan, outfits for a trendy Right Bank boutique and for Benetton. By 1985, his own little black dresses, decorated with bows and buttons, were selling...
...remarks clouds his message and allows the millions of Europeans who sat silently by during the Holocaust to escape the blame of history. It is a cowardly retreat to a position of moral comfort--where it is easy to believe that the Holocaust was the creation of a single madman and his henchmen. The Holocaust was more than the sick dream of a deranged dictator--it was the cheap, dark side of collective human nature unleashed...