Word: mads
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...graves—and remarking on how mean and callous the lovers sound as they snipe and push each other around the stage. Save for the unanimous critical praise for the mechanical’s concluding performance of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” which prompted mad hooting and a standing ovation from the audience, Midsummer seems to strike viewers as a dark dream...
...fictional creations mingle with some of the most prominent names in Harvard history. John Winthrop comes off as a humorous mad-scientist type as he encourages the use of newfangled microscopes, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz campaigns for a women’s college and Joe Kennedy looks longingly up at the Porcellian Club he can never join because of his Catholic background...
...loyalist says. "They want to win the ideological contest." But whatever Powell's motives, the White House believed that if the Secretary's doubts had been left out there, unanswered, for more than 24 hours, other Republicans would soon have piled on. "The Powell comment caused them to get mad enough to decide they were going to fight back, every day, aggressively, rather than let the problem take care of itself...
...malevolent nerd with chemistry-lab expertise and a grudge against the government. But when traces of the biological toxin ricin showed up in Senator Bill Frist's mail room last week, the FBI and other agencies declared there was no evidence pointing to either a foreign culprit or a mad scientist. One possibility under examination: a good ole boy who knows his way around 18-wheelers, weigh stations and CB radios...
...since gone out with the trash. Without even that much of a clue, the best that authorities can do is look for forwarded letters, reinterview Frist staff members, examine suspicious mail the Senator has got over the years--and hope that a tip or a slipup puts the latest mad mailer out of circulation. --Reported by Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville and Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington