Word: mads
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...flowing Arab robe. But the old Gaddafi was still in evidence. A good part of the interview was taken up by anti-Semitic slurs against "the Jews" who dictate U.S. Middle East policy; he mocked former President Ronald Reagan, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, saying he was "already mad" when he launched air attacks in response to Libyan terrorism in 1986. But Gaddafi became flustered when asked if he might be next on the U.S. list of Arab leaders to topple. "There is no possibility this could happen," he said, adding later, in a frank assessment...
...while, the stuff I was reading - the superhero stuff. So I just thought there was something limited about the medium itself. You could only do so much with it. I think a lot of people think that about comics. I sort of kept an eye open. I liked "Mad" comics and what [Harvey] Kurtzman [editor of "Mad"] was doing...
...Here's the delicious dilemma Pirandello poses: Three strange characters: a man (we'll say A), his wife (B) and an older woman (C), whom the man has forbidden his wife to contact. A says it's because C is mad: that she believes the man's wife is her daughter, when in fact her daughter was the man's first wife, who died in an earthquake, and B is his second. C says A is mad: that he mistakenly believed his wife had died in an earthquake, and to humor him B pretended to be another woman, whom...
Across the Channel, where our allies are supposed to be, the satire of Bush is only a shade less vicious. The title character of The Madness of George Dubya, a comedy in its sixth month on the West End, is another childish dimwit, who wears red cowboy pajamas and mangles the names of his enemies ("Saddama bin Laden"). Creator Justin Butcher says the play grew out of his outrage at the way Britain was "sleepwalking into war at the behest of the Administration in Washington." Unfortunately, the topical jokes soon give way to a long, obsessively detailed parody...
There's no need to make a mad dash for the bank to refinance. The Mortgage Bankers Association forecasts that rates will hover around 6% for the rest of the year. Keep in mind that a 6% mortgage is still a better deal than those we have seen for most of the past 30 years. --By Barbara Kiviat