Word: madman
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Strauss’s specialty is a backwards talking routine called “Lirty Dies” that he performs as often as he can, in which that madman Saddam becomes that “sadman Maddam” who has weapons of “ass mannihilation,” Bush is a “learless feeder,” and Clinton laments, in regard to the Florida recount, “That’s no way to lick a peter.” Strauss was once a resident of Adams House and sometimes talks backwards...
...Pekar: First of all I was familiar with them from reading them as a kid. I was familiar with the form. I used to collect them like a madman when I was an elementary school kid. But I got sick of them. I just thought they got predictable after a while, the stuff I was reading - the superhero stuff. So I just thought there was something limited about the medium itself. You could only do so much with it. I think a lot of people think that about comics. I sort of kept an eye open. I liked "Mad" comics...
...When Krakatoa erupted, at 10:02 a.m. on Aug. 27, 1883, it vaporized a 2,600-ft. mountain, created waves that killed a woman 2,000 miles away and produced spectacular sunsets as distant as New York City. But Winchester, who wrote the best-selling The Professor and the Madman, finds human stories in the island's troubled history that dwarf even the volcanic...
...failure to get United Nations backing for the war gravely undermined the chances of ever winning Arab official or public support for the war. Some Arabs may differ over whether the Bush administration launched the war for oil, Israel and world domination, or for the sake of disarming a madman who possesses weapons of mass destruction. Either way, most reject Bush's calculation that America's aims are worth the human and political toll the war is taking. Daily footage of funerals and hospital wards shown on Arab satellite channels is only confirming the worst Arab fears. The Iraqi resistance...
...neither ghoulish nor an expression of Bush's propensity to identify evil in the world. The point, says this adviser, is that Bush thinks Saddam is insane. "If there is one thing standing between those who want WMDs and those who have them," says this source, "it is this madman. Depending on the sanity of Saddam is not an option...