Word: mads
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...appears in the exhibit - an important curatorial decision. Instead of focusing on van Gogh as 'the crazy artist who cut his ear off,' the exhibit moves on to the tragedy of what this fit implied for van Gogh - as the exhibit undersores, van Gogh is more than a mad genius...
...novel set in a post apocalyptic future like Mad Max, the Postman Escape from New York and She's the One," Chun said...
...every dispassionate contest pitting nature's noblemen against each other, there is, or ought to be, one in which a festering resentment sends a sick thrill through the arena. Why get mad? Because your rival got stupidly lucky. Because your rival took more effective drugs than you did. Because some friends of your rival clubbed you on the knee a month before the big skate. And maybe the real or imagined slight goads the grudging one to greatness. Revenge spurs nearly every movie plot; why shouldn't it juice the adrenaline that an athlete needs to excel...
...inspirational as a Gipper speech. So this year's Olympians will murmur only the mildest bromides. But some of them, in this Grudge Report, will quietly nurse their enmity to find a focus for their few moments in the quadrennial sun. The old Olympic rule applies: Get mad; get even...
...knew I'd fail in my promise to be a full-fledged, art-producing participant at this year's Burning Man festival--the temporary Mad Max-inspired city made up of 30,000 neo-hippies camped out on a lifeless, mud-caked playa in Nevada the week before Labor Day for no better reason than they forgot to get a beach share. And as I feared, I showed up at the desert last week hopelessly unprepared, without so much as an alien costume or a didgeridoo...