Word: madman
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...attention we've devoted to this trial. It shows that for all the violence that surrounds us, and for all the killings we read about in the newspapers, Americans are still capable of being nonplussed. We are still a bit surprised when a father acts like a madman. Sure, we've all experienced the ubiquitous (and frightening) parent/fan whose enthusiasm crosses the line into anger. But while we've become jaded to harsh words, we are still shocked when a heated exchange metamorphoses into a physical confrontation. The image of two grown men throwing punches on the sidelines of their...
...conversation of a madman? No. An evil genius? Part of the deflation is an atmosphere of ineffable near-stupidity. The recollected premonitions in dreams about soccer teams made up of airplane pilots, for example. Stupidity is evil's dimwit half-brother. It dawns on you as you watch the tape that bin Laden may be like one of those not quite bright real-life hoods who strut around with the Godfather movies unreeling in their minds, the theme music playing in their inner ears; Al Pacino has given them the dialogue, a myth of themselves. Bin Laden is the John...
...Maydan's spittle-spraying, six-count indictment of America illustrates the principle that a person, when ranting about others, often describes himself. In 1941, for example, Hitler said of Churchill, "For over five years, this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire." Similarly, any commentator who writes about "arrogance," "tyranny" or "deceit" from an editorial perch in the Islamic Middle East is describing conditions outside his office window...
...Maydan's spittle-spraying, six-count indictment of America illustrates the principle that a person, when ranting about others, often describes himself. In 1941, for example, Hitler said of Churchill, "For over five years, this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire." Similarly, any commentator who writes about "arrogance," "tyranny" or "deceit" from an editorial perch in the Islamic Middle East is describing conditions outside his office window...
...devil took the first Beatle, and now God has taken another. When John Lennon was murdered in 1980, it was a sad anomaly, the impossible-to- predict act of a madman. The death of George Harrison, 58, of cancer in Los Angeles this week is something different. It's the sadly natural passing of a guiding spirit of the 60s and a prince of classic rock. "All Things Must Pass," was the title of Harrison's post-Beatles solo album in 1970. It could also be his epitaph...