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...team's ragged appearance even caught the attention of a Mad Magazine photographer who snapped a picture of the squad during their 1971-72 season...
...TELEVISION SERIES] MAD ABOUT...
...author has decreed a character transplant. But Proulx's language does not admit "yes, but" or "really?" When it works, which is most of the time, it sweeps aside all ideas, her own and the reader's, and allows no response except banging the hands together. Without this mad blaze of confidence, her next novel might have been a hanky dampener. Accordion Crimes traces an old green accordion from hand to calloused hand among turn-of-the-century Italian and German immigrants in New Orleans and the lower Mississippi. Told by Proulx, it makes a wonderfully strong, rowdy book...
Lucas started a quest in Hollywood for the magic of childhood. Sometimes that quest was successful. Without Luke Skywalker and Hans Solo, there would be no Indiana Jones. Sometimes it was not. Without stormtroopers there would have been no Starship Troopers. But successful or not, that mad attempt to find the stuff of childhood and put it in a bottle defined much of the movie scene for the past 20 years...
Only Silverstein could get away with tales of anteaters who turned out to be an aunteaters ("And now my uncle's mad") and the boy who, having nothing to put into his stew, climbs into the pot and makes a stew of himself ("I'll sing while I simmer, I'll smile while I'm stewing/I'll taste myself often to see how I'm doing...