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...city council. But Barnes stuck to his guns, and got a first installment of $400,000 (in four years he spent $2,000,000) He was immediately embroiled in battle with the populace at large-Denver gagged, struggled, complained vehemently that it was being victimized by a madman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAFFIC: Denver Doctor | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...down or brace themselves in their seats. Still whistling wildly, the train jolted into a switch with its coaches careering behind it, raced down its appointed track and into the terminal like some vast, noisy and hellish projectile. Engineer Brower was seen gesticulating from the cab like a madman as he went by. At that moment, it seemed that nothing could prevent a disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Runaway Train | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...modern times was reissued on the U.S. literary counter. Hadrian the Seventh might seem caviar to some, to others only a mess of purple eggs laid by a very odd fish indeed. To all, however, it offers one of the wildest sights ever flashed on the brainpan of a madman, a kind of interior cinema of a grand delusion. The author's life is a necessary prologue to the book-and its inevitable epilogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paranoid Pope | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

When it came Denise's turn to hear the charges against her, she burst into tears and tried to explain. "I was too unhappy," she sobbed. "I had no money. I became Berger's mistress because he terrorized me. He was a madman. I wanted to escape but he came to find me and dragged me by the hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gestapo of Rue de la Pompe | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

What separates Cabinet from the Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man class is its bizarre scenery, which is alone worth the admission. The sets are meant to appear painted, and their designers did not try to imitate reality; rather they depicted a mental world furbished by a madman. The prologue calls it "impressionistic," but it must be seen, not described...

Author: By Robert J. Schorenberg, | Title: Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Last Laugh | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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