Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Halston, the designer who started his career as a milliner, believes that "a spectacularly flattering hat is the ultimate ornamentation. When Queen Elizabeth has a white-tie party, she wears her crown. It sets her apart from everyone." The right hat, chosen from today's many mad caps, can do the same for any woman...
...band trying to bust onto the charts. Things may pick up a bit, though. The next scheduled offering, for example, includes a harrowing look at juvenile offenders trying to survive in an adult maximum-security prison and a zany profile of the mostly middle-aged men who put out Mad magazine. Future subjects sound promising too: football injuries, school censorship of dirty words, teen-age pregnancy, cheerleading, how rock concerts damage eardrums...
...right back into things in New Jersey," recalled the convict. "Well, Jimmy exploded at him. 'Look,' he said, 'when you get out, you guys are going to have to be on your own.' Tony's cheeks were red and twitching, he was so mad. Finally, he came towards Hoffa screaming, 'If you don't get out of my shit and back off of me, you'll end up like Castellito! They won't find so much as a fingernail of yours!' Jimmy yelled, 'Bullshit!' and that...
...proud Shah, as for his distressed people, it was a sorry week, yet one that had been a long time coming. For months the Shah's opposition had been growing more demonstrative, especially the Shi'ite mullahs and their followers. Three weeks ago, the militance took on a mad and sinister cast: terrorists set fire to a movie house in Abadan, killing 377 people. In an attempt to placate the religious conservatives, the Shah two weeks, earlier had installed Sharif-Emami as Premier, largely because he was respected by Iran's moderate Muslim clergy. Sharif-Emami closed gambling casinos...
...need to produce ideas on the grand scale, and I think that if someone asked me to design a new universe, I'd be mad enough to undertake it," wrote young Giovanni Battista Piranesi to a friend. Nobody asked him. In fact, nobody asked him to design any major building at all, though he always signed himself Architetto. Instead, he became known to his contemporaries as "the Rembrandt of Ruins...