Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end Gallagher offered to give himself up. But his partner, dubbed "Mad Marian" by the Dublin newspapers, refused to let him and their hostage go. As the deadly risk to Herrema mounted, Irish public opinion was increasingly divided. Initially, Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave's hard-line refusal to compromise was widely approved. Now it is feared that if the kidnapers were killed with their hostage after vain attempts to make a deal, they might become instant martyrs to the I.R.A. cause...
There are also a great many political asides, all having to do with the various and inclusive insanities of Marxism, capitalism and fascism. All are denounced, while liberation through mad ness is stoutly championed. Sweet Movie, full of unenlightened lunacy, is not really a film at all. It is a social disease...
...told me the party was supposed to be, I rushed in through the door yelling "Boo" and moaning and stuff, but it turned out to be some alumni cocktail party for the class of '48 that Harry [Gamble] was at. Boy, I was pretty embarrassed. And my roommate was mad...
Everybody had a band: not only Springsteen and Southside, but also Miami Steve, Vini ("Mad Dog") Lopez (who played drums on Bruce's first two albums) and Garry Tallent (now bass guitarist for the E Street Band). They all would appear at a dive called the Upstage Club for $15 a night, work from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., then party together, play records and adjourn till the next afternoon, when they would meet on the boardwalk to check the action and talk music. For sport everyone played Monopoly, adding a few refinements that made the game more like...
...other centuries, doctors have known that miners, stone cutters and lens grinders (including the philosopher Spinoza) often developed respiratory disease from inhaling large quantities of dust; hatters suffered brain damage and went mad from absorbing toxic vapors from the mercury used in making felt. A London surgeon named Percivall Pott reported in 1775 that the soot-covered sweepers who cleaned Britain's chimneys had a far higher rate of cancer of the scrotum than the rest of the population...