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Word: madnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three more hours until the "St. Patrick" is scheduled to come down to earth. Journalists are already populating the bar, slugging down the gin and tonics a little too quickly. Most of us are in the "Cloud 9" restaurant, and the three plump waitresses are going mildly mad. In the booth next door, a cameraman for Channel 3 is flashing black pin-stripes and a white bowler. There is a reporter for the Manchester Guardian who asks us if Harvard has started accepting women. There are reporters everywhere, lining the halls, careening into the state police and generally raising hell...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Chasing After the Shepherd | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

Haunted by his mother's madness, Louis (Mario Gonzales) has the ephemeral charm of a wide-eyed waif. A twilight dance on the lawn with Sylvie (Nicole Jamet) reveals the mad, musical magic within him. It is a lyrical moment of which Serreau and her cast should be proud...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Short Circuits in the Social Order | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...game went on, we got mad that the ball had not gone in," Brynteson said. "After we scored, we all thought 'well it's about time...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Women Booters Down Bears | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...Roman or Flemish Baroque, borrowings from the new realism of Caravaggio and his great Spanish follower, Ribera. The city was visited by geniuses, like the young Rubens; but its art colony consisted mainly of third-rate painters turning out ragged marsh peasants, holy Virgins with the rolling eyeballs of mad colts, and wardrobe-like, impermeable nudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: After Titian, Venice Observed | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...Free Dutch forces operating out of England. He returned on an ill-fated mission to rescue some political leaders and later became an R.A.F. bomber pilot. As played by Rutger Hauer, he is an engagingly unmilitary figure, peering nearsightedly through rimless glasses at a once comfortable world going mad and finding unsuspected resources of moral courage within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: False Colors | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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