Word: madmanned
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...obstinately sustained lyricism. She keeps up the mood of Apollonian pleasure so well that one may think of Edmund Wilson's satire The Omelet of A. MacLeish, whose hero's well-made tropes "gleamed in the void, and evoked approbation and wonder/ That a poet need not be a madman, or even a bounder...
...supposedly fueled the State Department's economic sanctions. Now, the election frauds are an excuse for potentially delaying or even cancelling the transfer of Canal rights to their rightful owners. Already, U.S. Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) has decried the treaty's promise to return the Canal to "a madman like Noriega...
When he first got to Paris, Kelly holed up in a small hotel, sharing a tiny room with a 6-ft. 2-in. model named Kim ("Her feet stuck out from the end of the bed"). He sewed like a madman, buying only enough fabric to make the next dress. From selling clothes at a flea market, he progressed to making costumes for a discotheque and, with the help of his business partner, Bjorn Amelan, outfits for a trendy Right Bank boutique and for Benetton. By 1985, his own little black dresses, decorated with bows and buttons, were selling...
...remarks clouds his message and allows the millions of Europeans who sat silently by during the Holocaust to escape the blame of history. It is a cowardly retreat to a position of moral comfort--where it is easy to believe that the Holocaust was the creation of a single madman and his henchmen. The Holocaust was more than the sick dream of a deranged dictator--it was the cheap, dark side of collective human nature unleashed...
Along the third-base line, an old man in a traditional Korean black hat and flowing black gown was spinning around like a madman and waving a Korean flag. The same versatile character had been sighted just a day before at the Hanyang University gymnasium waving a Japanese flag. That time he had been surrounded by four mild-mannered Japanese matrons who were waving their own flags of the Rising Sun and calling out "Good luck! Good luck!" to the Japanese volleyball team. As soon as the unprepossessing quintet finished their cheer, a thunderous chant arose from two separate sections...