Word: mads
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...mad scramble for the puck ensued, during which Yale defenseman Greg Boucher gloved the puck in the crease, prompting the penalty shot...
...Comedy Event of the Millennium,” Loomis could be (inadequately) described as a cross between Kids in the Hall and a live action South Park. The story unfolds about as logically as Alice in Wonderland, and the characters indeed would need to compete for attention at the Mad Hatter’s tea party. It’s a hilarious success...
...better understand "the mesmerizing force of the Chinese myth as well as the reasons why some people are brave or mad enough to challenge it," Buruma seeks out a wide and remarkably varied group of dissidents. The tour begins among the exiles in the U.S., and moves through the Chinese periphery?Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong?before wending its way through the P.R.C. to Beijing. What emerges from the journey is a detailed map of the international landscape of Chinese heterodoxies, an encyclopedic Who's Who of troublemakers that is engagingly anecdotal, often surprising and deeply insightful. Readers already acquainted...
Grades. At this time of year, they’re simply terrifying to Harvard students. Many are panicking. Some are mad...
...Toward the end he often soured into rancor and vindictiveness. He laid a paranoid rant on Alec Wilder when the esteemed musicologist asked permission to quote snatches of Berlin songs for his study "American Popular Music." And though Berlin enjoyed writing parodies of other composers' songs, he sued Mad magazine for a 1962 folio of song parodies, including several of his ("Always," "A Pretty Girl..."). The suit was eventually dismissed. Finally he believed that a cultural environment that ignored his contributions was no culture at all. "Show business?" he told a friend. "There's no more show business! We whistle...