Word: mads
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Confession of a movie-mad youth: I enjoyed seeing pictures of all kinds, and by my early teens had become a little connoisseur of certain actors, directors and genres-all American, since I was an American kid, and since Hollywood product dominated movie theaters. Then one day, at a Philadelphia art house in early 1959, I saw Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, and saw the light. The knight playing chess with Death, the panorama of medieval questing and suffering, the clowns and flagellants, all convinced me: this was art! There were movies, I knew, and now... there was film...
...down before the machine guns like corn before the reaper ... I am sure there was some plan at the back of the attack but it is difficult to know what it was." Sergeant Archie Barwick, a farmer, writes of the German bombardment at Pozi?res: "Men were driven stark staring mad ... Any amount of them could be seen crying & sobbing like children." Corporal Arthur Thomas, a tailor, writes home on his 40th birthday, "I should be out of it by now, but men are wanted, so will stick it to the end." Sgt. Jimmy Downing recalls the fighting at Villers-Bretonneux...
...This third degree has Nguyen hopping mad and complaining about how his right to free speech has been violated. His right? What happened to the mystery staffer who he said he fired and now wants to re-hire...
...have to go with Tiger Woods because he's so dominant right now. His father passed away, and he's very sad and upset, and he's playing angry. He's killing everyone. Destroying them. It's all over. He's sort of like me. When I get mad, there's nothing anyone can do. Nothing...
More important, many of them were probably not partisans but people who might not have paid any attention to the stem-cell issue before the celebrity dustup roused their curiosity. (Just what made Rush so mad? How shaky does Alex P. Keaton look now, anyway?) In a past election, viewers might have seen the controversial ads only if they lived in Missouri or caught them on the news. Now they can find them, in full, at their leisure. They can also expand on, rebut or parody the ads, as numerous YouTubers did, including breatheasy7000, a woman whose 17-second video...