Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mute. Since he is played by Marcel Marceau, he is also a mime and really requires no words. The plot, which is crusted with mold, involves a fantasy in which Shanks dreams of a spooky old house (not the one on Haunted Hill, however), a nice old mad scientist and his experiments in which the dead can be made mobile like puppets...
...days. He found rats feeding on garbage, noticed a number of light fixtures and heating vents that did not work, and came across 16 apartments that were uninhabited be cause they become flooded whenever it rains. He listened to residents complain about marauding gangs. "We wonder why people get mad living there," he said later, promising federal funds and more city services to improve Bankhead...
...only spent one weekend there and I'm mad already...
...IRAN'S MILITARY BUILDUP: We are not going to go nuclear. But discipline we will have, and knowledge we will have. We are working like mad training our people and enhancing their military knowledge. We are buying the best. If we make our forces mobile, then I think that with what we are planning now, in five years' time we will be among the top nonatomic armies of the world. Every day I find additional reasons to continue this policy because of the impotence of the United Nations. First of all, there is that U.N. veto. We also...
...soapmaker's son who was born in the seaport of Greifswald in 1774 and died obscure and slightly mad in Dresden in 1840, Friedrich was one of the most German artists Germany produced in the 19th century. He never made the obligatory journey south to study in Rome; his subject matter was the foggy and precipitous vista, sublimely expansive and filled with premonitory brooding. The writer Ludwig Tieck believed Friedrich was the Nordic genius incarnate, whose mission was "to express and suggest most sensitively the solemn sadness and religious stimulus which seem recently to be reviving our German world...