Word: sane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost become a symbol of all that Britain wants to stand for -something safe, sane, stable and as everlasting as the Tower of London," praised the Sunday Mirror. The tribute was just one of many inspired by the 75th birthday this week of Britain's Queen Mother, who endures as her country's beloved matriarch. Though she declined to appear for any television interviews, she willingly posed for an official birthday photo, and her royal family planned a black-tie dinner at Buckingham Palace complete with Scottish pipers, a three-tiered birthday cake and, rumor had it, some...
Jaws's appeal is different from a lot of other horror movies and an afternoon of adrenalin-whirling escape. The difference is that it can really happen. While skeptics could nervously laugh off The Exorcist because, after all, what civilized person really believes in demons, no sane person can doubt the reality of shark attacks...
...psychotic, schizophrenic, paranolac, psychopathic nut, who takes his relaxation by hanging himself up on a crucifix in the parior, and who is uncomfortable in the role of noble and has no respect for his wealth or position. We're supposed to like him--he's the truly sane one, right? A worthless creep, I think--the idea is admirable, and there are a couple of good bits on the English class system, but they, come from straight parodies of the sane lorda and ladies, not from the idea of O'Toole's character, which is facile and degenerates into Incompressible...
...time of King Faisal's death, the government announced that the prince was mentally deranged-and thus presumably would escape death. After further investigation, however, Saudi authorities concluded that the murder had been the politically motivated act of a sane man. In fact, said Radio Riyadh, the prince had confessed to the assassination, explaining it as an effort to rid Saudi Arabia of the rule of Islam because it stood "in the way of the development of the country...
...demo was a big success," the thirtyish black guy informed me proudly. He was friendly and cheerful and seemed perfectly sane, but it didn't seem to make sense, even when he asked me if I'd counted the cars--"the cars, man, didn't you notice how heavy the traffic was?"--that had turned out to protest against Polaroid. Where had he himself been during the demonstration, for example...