Word: madman
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...Affair, as a deranged Londoner in David Cronenberg's Spider and as three generations of Hungarian Jews in Istvan Szabo's Sunshine--won him kudos, but the films fizzled at the box office. His two commercial successes could be considered coattail rides: as Hannibal Lecter's apprentice madman in Red Dragon and as Jennifer Lopez's prince charming in Maid in Manhattan. Casual moviegoers may recall that his name has an exotic pronunciation, then wonder, What ever happened to Rafe Fines...
...1850s and had championed his militant abolitionist efforts. In 1859 Brown had invaded Harpers Ferry, Va., as part of a scheme to free the slaves but was captured and hanged for treason. While Douglass considered Brown a hero and martyr, Lincoln had referred to him as a criminal and madman. Yet now Lincoln was borrowing from Brown by conceiving a similar raid. Douglass had not gone with Brown to Harpers Ferry because he had correctly predicted that Brown would fail in the attempt. But Douglass eagerly accepted Lincoln's proposal and began preparing for the invasion. Sherman's victory...
...Then there's the Kusturica theory. This year's Jury President is a forceful fellow - some would translate that as madman - and, reportedly, thisclose to Jim Jarmusch; hence talk that he could persuade the jurors to choose Broken Flowers. He might be looking for the kind of films he makes: big, bustling, manic movies about displaced persons. Two films fitting that description are Marco Tullio Giordano's illegal-immigrant drama Once You're Born and the nutsy-sexy Mexican Battle in Heaven. A third, as Cannes' official announcer Patrick Fabre told me at a swank party where...
...company that had hired Bolton as a lawyer. "Within hours after dispatching that letter," Townsel told the committee, "my hell began. Mr. Bolton proceeded to chase me through the halls of a Russian hotel--throwing things at me, shoving threatening letters under my door and generally behaving like a madman ... Mr. Bolton then routinely visited [my hotel] to pound on the door and shout threats." Later, Townsel says, Bolton falsely told AID and other U.S. officials that she was under investigation for misuse of funds. Democrats and TIME have found witnesses to corroborate parts of Townsel's story. Republicans point...
...missiles, our offensive missiles." In fact, he repeated the thought in only slightly different language three times, which raised an obvious question: Why bother with an extremely costly defensive system if there were no longer any nuclear missiles to intercept? His answer: "In case someplace in the world a madman someday tries to create these weapons again." White House aides hastened to correct the President, who later backtracked to say that if the Soviets would not do away with offensive systems, the U.S. would deploy SDI anyway. All the same, the original gaffe was an unnerving example of the tendency...