Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life...
...These people are mad," she says, "but you just can't stay mad over one thing for three years--and there's really only the judge to rant about. You have to reach for new peaks to sustain the anger, so some of these parents--old ROAR people and the apathetic ones--have decided to move past heckling into something tougher, something more challenging. When they see how bad conditions in the schools are, how kids can be carrying home 'A's for grades and 'C's for conduct, they begin to realize that all the demonstrating, all the animosity...
...watch the mad scramble to the white pile in the front of the lecture hall during the opening week of classes, you might guess that the professor was offering his prospective students letters of admission to the Law School. Course reading lists, obviously, are a few steps behind these letters in guaranteeing a seat in a glamorous law firm, but they usually dictate where and how a healthy part of each student's time and money will be spent for a year. It's no surprise that these white mimeographed sheets are some of the hottest items floating around campus...
...These people are mad," she says, "but you just can't stay mad over one thing for three years--and there's really only the judge to rant about. You have to reach for new peaks to sustain the anger, so some of these parents--old ROAR people and the apathetic ones--have decided to move past heckling into something tougher, something more challenging. When they see how bad conditions in the schools are, how kids can be carrying home 'A's for grades and 'C's for conduct, they begin to realize that all the demonstrating, all the animosity...
...known as the Rattlers. Joe Lon Mackey, once one of the team's great running backs, now lives in a trailer with his pregnant wife and two kids. His days of glory behind him, he sells whisky to the locals while his daddy trains fighting dogs and his mad sister watches TV round the clock. It is a world in which boredom and brutality are kinds of celebration, where "men were maimed without malice, sometimes-often even-in friendship...