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Word: madness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bleeding from a bullet wound in the earlobe. He is too dazed to talk. His wife and servants are missing. Rather than call for help, the assembled friends launch a cover-up, avoiding scandal ostensibly for their host but also for themselves. Instead of hewing to the consistent if mad logic of successful farce, the conspirators lurch haphazardly from rationale to rationale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Falling Short RUMORS | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...people starving to death in Africa, as long as no cure for AIDS or cancer has been found, as long as there are homeless Americans and poverty stricken families, it is offensive that a social organization for men who are already the elite of society should have all this mad money...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Liquor, Cocaine, Pot, Ecstasy and Sexism | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...Check your history. Such displays of emotion were once in vogue, but after it resulted in tragedy in 1983, such acts have been banned. Still, feel free to make a mad dash for the 50-yd. line after the final whistle blows. The players love it. They even let you touch their helmets. What...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Spirit | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

...made-for-television gesture, he held aloft a copy of Wednesday's Boston Herald, with a front-page headline description of the Massachusetts budget situation: "What a Mess." He accused Dukakis of "borrowing like mad" and "kiting checks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis Says Bush Is Losing Ground | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

...Everyone on the delegation at different times felt that they could be killed," said Yourman. "You're in the middle of nowhere--all it takes is one soldier to get mad. You don't know what can happen...

Author: By Yuko Miyazaki, | Title: Sister City Delegation To Show Video of Trip | 10/25/1988 | See Source »

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