Word: madness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With madness, as with vomit, it's the passer-by who receives the inconvenience," says a character in Joe Orton's one-act satire The Erpingham Camp. No doubt about it, playwright Joe Orton was a great, corrosive farcist. With such devilish lines, he's been pricking up everyone's ears for the past two decades, and it's been audiences who've felt the inconvenience of his caustic, mad wit. He was so talented, even the cheeky, musical imps of the perverse, The Beatles, had Orton working on an original screenplay when he was bludgeoned to death...
...convicted killers, he testified, it "made me sick to my stomach." He got a Sunday-morning appointment with Reagan to tell him about the proposal. Poindexter had testified that Reagan approved the nine points as a bargaining tool. No way, said Shultz. "I have never seen him so mad," said the Secretary. "He's a very genial, pleasant man, he's very easygoing, but his jaw set, and his eyes flashed . . . In that meeting I finally felt that the President deeply understands that something is radically wrong here...
...revelations that a subsidiary of Toshiba sold the Soviets high-tech equipment for the manufacture of submarine propellers. The uncovering of a second spy scandal will not make matters any better. Said a Japanese government official: "This is just the thing we need to make the Yanks hopping mad again...
...used to be a waitress in a restaurant, and I knew some lawyers, and they told me to call the American Civil Liberties Union. For a week they didn't accept me. They thought I was just some student mad at my principal. When they did accept me, the A.C.L.U. contacted the school and threatened to take it to court. The school board's lawyers settled out of court. I got the right to print more issues, but I couldn't sell it. We had no money. How could I print without selling...
...would have taken it all the way. At the end of the school year I decided to publish another issue. Since I couldn't sell it, it came mostly out of my pocket. I just wanted to prove my rights. It made the teachers mad. The principal said he decided not to censor it -- with the lawyers and everything he didn't have the right -- but he just wanted to sound tough...