Word: madmen
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...urged to recall that after 18 months of sticks and stones, the intifadeh command last month instructed its followers to "kill a settler or a soldier for every martyr of our people." And those who dismiss the settlers' increasing resort to acts of revenge as the scattered expressions of madmen are similarly out of touch...
STARS IN THE MORNING SKY, Contemporary Theater, Moscow. Galina Volchek directs a superbly acted indictment of the Brezhnev years, a play depicting how drunks, prostitutes and madmen were swept off the streets of Moscow and into exile as Soviet authorities polished up the capital on the eve of the 1980 Olympic Games...
...knows how much can be shown in a shot, how much can be said in a few words. But the picture was a harbinger too. If Lawrence was the last colonial God-man, he was also the movie epic's first moody hero, father to countless sacred screen madmen. And in the picture's political wrangling and massacre scenes, we see hints of American history in the late '60s and American movies today: a preview of Viet Nam and a prequel to Platoon...
...thought [the Elis] would come out and play like madmen," said Crimson Captain Mark Pepper, who played for the first time in two months after injuring his quadricep. "They wanted to share the title with...
...Once the empire has died, taking with it the old notions of great men who shape destinies and insignificant men who suffer like extras in an antediluvian epic, every motive is up for grabs. And what do we find in an empire's night ashes? Punks and ghosts and madmen dancing in the carnage or singing a Motown melody as all the survivors copulate on Armageddon Eve. In Sammy & Rosie's cultural revolution, the radicals strike not poses but sexual sparks. They give a lovely light...