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...shoulder and asking him if he would be interested in mere cash. These were gods and they were playing in the big leagues. The AFL could buy some rookies, but what made it stand out were the porous pass defenses, jetburner receivers, and well... flakes. You know. Madmen. The unforeseeable. The untamed. The masters of errata...

Author: By Tim Carlson, | Title: Light Whitening | 5/9/1974 | See Source »

...blinding sheet of snow. The seas are pounding in 15-ft. waves, and all sensible fishermen have long since headed for port. But here, in the glare of arc lamps, heavily clothed figures are wrestling with craneloads of drill casings, dancing about on the slippery, freezing deck like madmen. No need to shout here: the screaming wind and throbbing drill machinery make conversation next to impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Probing the Last Frontier | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

Cornell is another story completely. Despite a 7-7 tie with Lehigh, the Big Red has credentials equally impressive as those of Harvard. And more significantly the Ithaca madmen have a defense...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 10/20/1973 | See Source »

...believe that the safety of the country is more important than the methods used to scare out the malcontents, subversives, miscreants and madmen. Exposing shenanigans, militants, self-servers and pie-in-the-skyers must be done, no matter how or by whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1973 | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...Dubuffet used these techniques deliberately to discover how ludicrous, violent or absurd an image a given set of conventions could carry within the context of modern painting. His drawing is stylish to the point of mannerism. Indeed his pictures depend on that context more than his admirers will allow. Madmen understand the art of the mad; children, child art. But when an eminently rational adult, whose career as an artist began when he was 41, proclaims that he and we can become as little children, an impressive feat of cultural legerdemain has been attempted-and nobody in the museum gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dubuffet: Realism As Absurdity | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

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