Word: madman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were out in force. The situation reached a new level of hysteria Friday, when the cover of the Post was taken up by "an open letter to the judge deciding our fate." The missive begged Judge Francis Conrad to rescue the paper and, indeed, the civilized world from the "madman...
Home shopping? Is this Barry Diller, the manic madman who has fascinated and frightened Hollywood for more than two decades? The charismatic celebrity addicted to power and partying with people who appear boldfaced in Women's Wear Daily social columns? And why is he spending three days a week in a sprawling office park in the exurbs of Philadelphia, surrounded by wildlife photos and a bank of nine video screens? "Home shopping is the very beginning of a whole new world," he says, as he bounds around his second-floor office while assistants teach him about things like product markups...
...rented apartment, after his death, turned out to be crammed with the output of a lifetime's obsession with innocence and violence, including a 15,000-page illustrated saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, a sort of madman's Iliad of endless carnage between adults and moppets. No "mainstream" artist has so far based anything in Darger, which is just as well; in today's America, he would be arraigned for child abuse faster than you could say Lewis Carroll...
...such films as Loulou and A Nos Amours, Pialat has sullenly railed against the strictures of French bourgeois life. In Van Gogh, he has found a kindred spirit; for both, artistic compromise is a crime against humanity. Jacques Dutronc plays the painter as a | troubled man (but not a madman) with a mission, a sort of nerd for art. Full of graceful compositions and expansive conversation, Van Gogh is an eyeful. And an earful...
...Arkansas' and 'He talks about improving education, but Arkansas' pupils rank near the bottom on test scores.' " According to Bond, we'll also see spots that "accentuate the stature gap," like, "In the next decade 10 Third World countries will have nuclear weapons. Who better can deal with a madman with nukes, George Bush or Bill Clinton?" "Foreign policy will be an issue if we make it an issue," says Stone, "and we will. You always play to your strength, and you play it over and over...