Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mementos of happy times a half-century ago. From across the room a bulky man offered a greeting: "Do you remember me?" For a long moment Kraber stared, searching his mental archives, but the name eluded him. Softly the other man identified himself as Mordecai Gorelik. Kraber cried out, "Max!" and they fell into a hug that, they reckoned, embraced some 40 bygone years...
...brilliantly brittle Coward parody full of stiff-upper-libido dialogue like "I abhor cliché. It's one of the things that has kept me faithful." As it happens, the two leading players in House of Cards are Henry's wife Charlotte (Christine Baranski) and his friend Max (Kenneth Welsh). And Henry has just begun a secret, convulsive love affair with Max's actress wife Annie (Glenn...
Close). Soon Henry and Annie have set up house together, leaving Charlotte in silence and Max in a slough of self-pity Annie is so happy that she cannot feel guilty about Max ("His misery just seem . . .not in very good taste"), and Henry is a giddy schoolboy. "I love love," he exults "I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love...
...goin' to nigger heaven!" Then there's the amazing Mr. T, who drives a cab with gold grillework and gives inspirational speeches from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "You've got animal magnetism!" shouts the wife of the fleet's owner (Max Gail), a hippie Viet vet who enforces discipline with his old Nam flamethrower. "You attract animals...
...they are alienated from the very society that they purport to serve." Duane Bloom of Golden, Colo., argued in a letter to the Denver Post: "The media have frequently misused sensitive and explosive events as opportunities for personal glory and financial gain." Conceded New York Times Editorial Page Editor Max Frankel...