Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then I see the players saying, 'Wait. The old buzzard's really mad...
...Eagle Has Landed proceeds from a preposterous premise. Some time late in World War II, half-mad Hitler conceives a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin as a hostage against the fate that the dictator sees gathering for him. In preparing a feasibility study of this enterprise in order to placate the leader, German intelligence discovers that it actually is not such a bad idea after all. The movie -which shows how this crazy notion was placed in operation and damn near succeeded-is a good idea too. One almost comes to believe the source...
Like a heartbeat drive you mad...
...fear it might trigger a slaughter. All this was the work of a mere dozen men who held 132 hostages in three Washington buildings for a chilling 38 hours. The terrorists made dramatically clear what has become all too obvious: anybody with a cause and a gun, be he mad or madcap, fanatic or eccentric, can seize and hold national attention by kidnaping and threatening to kill innocent victims...
...this little piece of the proverbial pie, for whatever the hell I, the writer-as-writer (Read: WRITER), want to write. Nobody, including you, has to read this. Nobody jams Hustler magazine down your throat every month, Mr. or Ms. Community Standards. Now I'm getting mad, so I'd better stop. (But let me tell you this--words like "vitiate," "template," "crenelated," "absolve," and "New York Review of Books" come to mind...