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Word: madnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hamlet plot has always been an archetypal sources for playwrights. As diverse writers as Goethe (Clavigo), Chekhov (Seagull), W.S. Gilbert (who wrote a play let in which Rosencrantz and Ophelia are secret lovers). Philip LaZebnik '75 (whose Mad About Mintz not only parodies Hamlet but is riddled with themes of death), and Paris Barclay '78 (whose ambitious though now moribund production of Niccolo & The Prince featured Hamlet as a major--character), all have pirated shamelessly from Shakespeare...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: Not Hamlet, Nor Meant to Be | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

...changed much. After 38 years, you just don't keep talking about the same thing... When we were first married, he wanted me to act in a way that I couldn't. I thought it was artificial and unnatural although I'm sure he was right. I would get mad at the kids and show it and he didn't want...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: Under Skinner's Skin | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...source not far removed from the current negitations said yesterday that the Kennedys are so mad at Harvard for not applying pressure on the community to relent on its museum-must-go demands, that they would not mind taking their money and running to the most advantageous site, probably Cape Cod at this point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trouble Behind The Bliss | 3/22/1975 | See Source »

...Vernon Craig, you know," Ross continues. "He was on the Mike Douglas Show, Now when you torture people or cause them pain, their blood pressure goes up, and his goes down. It's driving the doctors mad...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Men Behind the Guinness Book | 3/19/1975 | See Source »

...other hand, if a crank or an ignoramus took the Urbino paintings, they may have been jettisoned or destroyed by now, in panic. Siviero is inclined to discount the concrete-bunker theory-the mad millionaire gloating over stolen masterpieces in solitude. The collector, he believes, "wants to be able to enjoy the possession and to show it off." That leaves the extortion hypothesis: the work of art taken either to get a ransom or some political favor. In fact, however, the few ransom demands that have been made have turned out to be phony. Even if they were real, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Plunder of the New Barbarians | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

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