Word: mads
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...also suspect that the portrait of his mother is partly fanciful. She has the melodramatic sulfur of the mad mom in one of David Sedaris' "memoir" stories, the domineering vindictiveness of a shrew-mother from 40s movies. In fact, she's played in the film by none other than Ann Savage, the virulent megabitch Vera in Edgar G. Ulmer's cheapo noir classic Detour. That was 62 years ago, and now, at 86, she is the icy Queen Maddin, standing in for all the city's overbearing women. (As narrator, he says, "Never underestimate the tenacity of a Winnipeg mother...
...Mitchell is a casualty of a failure that drives his country mad. For generations, the All Blacks have been the world's outstanding team, with a 75% win record against all rugby-playing nations, many of which have never beaten them. Yet the first Cup, of 1987, is the only one they have won. They're the rugby equivalent of Sergei Bubka, the Ukrainian pole vaulter who broke 35 vaulting world records but won only one Olympic medal...
...hard to imagine today that a half-century ago, TV was essentially the Internet: a wicked-cool invention that experimentalists would toy with just to see what crazy stuff they could make it do. Ernie Kovacs was the most innovative of TV's early mad scientists, using his comedy hour to spoof such then new creations as newscasts and ads and employing visual effects like upside-down pictures and tilted sets to appear to defy gravity. Comedy is lying done amusingly, and Kovacs knew that TV--which purported to show all but hid everything beyond the outline...
...works. Now calls are growing for a regional free-trade deal to tie all the small ones together. That, of course, would require the US, Japan and China to open their markets to one another. "If someone proposed that today," Oxley says, "people would say, You're mad." But that view is changing: last year "the U.S. surprised everyone by announcing they were interested in the idea of an APEC free-trade area." This year came a free-trade agreement between the U.S. and Korea. "Nobody expected that to happen," Oxley says. "It's resulted in a very serious look...
...Mitchell became another casualty of a failure that drives his country mad. More or less constantly since the first Cup in 1987, the All Blacks have been the world's outstanding team. In the years between Cups, they routinely trounce everyone. Yet that first Cup of '87 is the only one they've won. This makes them the Sergei Bubka of rugby - and don't they hate it. "The truth is, we do tend to fall over and we're sick of it," says All Black great Frank Bunce on the eve of the sixth World Cup, which begins...