Word: madmanned
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...Muldoon Manor (one fine morning in early spring) he arranges a collection of classic whodunit players. There is the lovely Lady Muldoon whose husband disappeared mysteriously over the cliffs 10 years ago, her bright young friend Felicity Cunningham; Simon Gascoyn, their dashing sometime lover who may be the madman police are searching for, a Muldoon half-brother confined to a wheel-chair and a creepy housekeeper named Mrs. Drudge who enters a room at all the wrong moments. A corpse lies sprawled under a sofa, unnoticed for most of the evening...
...forest." This is Herzog talking, of course, not Kinski or Fitzcarraldo. Or rather, Herzog is all his characters, all his actors. He is the dreamer, the savage, the engulfing river. This time, Herzog steered his craft through rapids and longueurs, outside dangers and his own follies. A madman and a survivor: a moviemaking Ahab who lived to tell his fabulous tale. -By Richard Corliss
...suits accuse Johnson & Johnson of failing to package Tylenol in a tamperproof manner. Attorneys who are expert in product-liability law think that Johnson & Johnson will be able to convince the courts that it could not have been expected to anticipate and guard against the acts of a putative madman. But they add that the company is likely to incur expenses running into the millions in defending itself...
Former Special Ambassador to the Middle East Sol Linowitz says that a hardline, get-tough attitude is not the way to move Menachem Begin [June 28]. I say it is the only way. I see him not as "the thundering prophet of the Old Testament," but as a madman determined to exterminate the poor, homeless Palestinian nation and willing to risk the security of the world doit...
...larger than the words. Similarly, in "Wherever Home Is," he allows a statue of Leonardo da Vinci to filter into his mind and emerge uncontrollable on paper. He relishes the flavor of da Vinci's life and the historical impression he is left with: affectionately he calls Leonardo a "madman" and wanders off in the sun with the artist. The last stanza is memorable...