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Word: madding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...views the birth of the world, of the soul; he enters into it, becomes it. Clearly, the experiments of this modern mad scientist have got out of hand -and too far into himself. Can he return? This is a question whose application here can be debated and debunked by those familiar with the work of Dr. John Lilly, the behavioral scientist whose use of tank therapy prefigured Eddie's. But most moviegoers will be enthralled by the fiction in this dazzling piece of science fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Invasion of the Mind Snatcher | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...will fight through a for bidding given name, especially when they want to make some one more vivid hi their minds. Where would baseball be without Goose, hockey without Boom Boom, football without Mean Joe? Common criminals would sound like common criminals were there no Machine Gun, Killer or Mad Dog among them. Not that all gangster names are so picturesque. Nathan Kaplan's monicker was "Kid Dropper" for reasons too awful to contemplate. And Al Capone was known as the Millionaire Gorilla, though it is hard to picture some floozie chucking him under the chin and cooing, "Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is Reagan Dutch or O & W? | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

JACKSON'S VISION is of decay and chaos. Even when he touches subjects more familiar to him, he bites. "Mad at You" offers not the singsong despair of his hit, "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" but a guttural snarl that he lashes at his lover...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: A Lightweight No More | 12/4/1980 | See Source »

...mad...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: A Lightweight No More | 12/4/1980 | See Source »

...MAD...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: A Lightweight No More | 12/4/1980 | See Source »

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