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Word: madnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into his savings to cover medical bills. He recently paid $700 for dental work and $140 for a pair of special orthopedic shoes, and fears that he will have to make another withdrawal to cover some of the cost of an operation later this year. "I'm mad about inflation," says Seid man, "and I know I must fight back." He has joined an organization called Fight Inflation Together, which has sponsored boycotts of meat and milk and picketed super markets to protest high prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Struggling to Cope with These Trying Times | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...MAD ADVENTURES OF "RABBI" JACOB

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strictly Kosher | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...burst of rabid optimism common to their species, the Stateside distributors of this perishable French farce report that the movie contains "1,500 separate gags." How did such a statistic turn up? Did 20th Century-Fox survey theaters in France, where The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob has been doing the kind of business that virtually subsidizes an entire industry? Maybe the director supplied the eager exhibitors with a laugh count made on the metric system and an error was made in the conversion. Maybe something was lost in the translation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strictly Kosher | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...convinced that Nixon's "lack of frankness" had undercut his case and that he was impeachable under Article I as a member of the cover-up conspiracy. Angry at having been "led down the primrose path" by Nixon, Dennis said that he and his colleagues were not mad at St. Clair since, "we knew he'd been led down the primrose path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST WEEK: THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

...Tony Scaduto's recent biography, Mick Jagger: Everybody's Lucifer, implies this could be so. Mick is quoted as saying, "I'm thinking about entering politics, but I haven't got the right wife." Indeed, BiancA, partying in a Zandra Rhodes gown, looked more like mad Ophelia than an M.P.'s consort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1974 | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

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