Word: madman
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...course, the tourists don't know any better. They've never been held hostage by a twitching madman at the business end of a methamphetamine binge, who changes lanes like Elton John changes costumes and thinks cries of "slow down" mean "go faster." It's unlikely they have seen what the side of a bus can do when it becomes intimate with a tuk tuk's flimsy frame...
...madman, armed to the teeth, holds thousands of people hostage. This is exactly the situation that exists with North Korea; it is holding South Korea and Japan at gunpoint. Etienne Forest Tsukuba, Japan...
...Liam Neeson than Stephen King) and behavior (late nights and drugs) certainly did. "He probably elicits more extreme responses than any other person in publishing," says an executive from a rival house. Byng is used to it. "I am the same person if people say I'm a hedonistic madman or an innovative publisher." Besides, a wild streak can be an advantage in Byng's line of work. At least five major London houses turned Pi down, and although Faber and Faber had made an offer equal to Canongate's, Martel says that it was Byng's personality that made...
...turn up. While some officers thought that the style and accuracy of the shootings suggested a marksman, Coulson says modern gun sights make "a shot of 100 meters or so" fairly simple. And the apparently random selection of victims, says former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt, indicated a madman or a killer disguising his real agenda. On this question--Why?--the bullets were silent. --By Elaine Shannon
...known around studios as "that mad, bad, dangerous girl who takes her clothes off and weeps a lot." But now Hollywood is taking a chance on that girl. In Red Dragon, Watson gives a heart-breaking performance as Reba, a young blind woman who seduces Ralph Fiennes' titular madman so thoroughly that he thinks twice about biting off her fingers. Director Brett Ratner offered her the role because he was impressed with her work in Breaking the Waves. But Watson also felt that Red Dragon was just mad, bad and dangerous enough for her. "If you're going...