According to an old proverb, whom the gods want to destroy they first make mad.
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For example, Clark had an idea to take old Mussolini speeches and make Mad Libs out of them.
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" The speech is rife with incendiary language: • "Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.
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" Exelon Corporation: "No, I prefer to make [mad money] in Dominion, American Electric Power, which has come down a great deal, or ConEd, which has also gotten hammered.
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Several describe cute juvenile sex games, including Going to Missouri, in which Cecily and her Barbie doll make mad pioneer love in matching bonnets, and Kiss Machine, in which Theo speed-smooches a set of twin boys until one somehow winds up with a black eye.
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And I countered this by recalling that he had wanted to make Mad a slick. And I said, “Harvey, if you stay, I’ll let you make Mad a slick. :And Harvey stayed, made Mad a slick, and didn’t even take as much money as he would have gotten at Pageant, because Harvey was never money-crazy.
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Before publishing The Lion Feeds, Smith was working as an accountant and had already written a novel, The Gods First Make Mad, for which he had been unable to find a publisher. After his first marriage failed, he tried again with a different story: > I wrote about my own father and my darling mother. I wove into the story > chunks of early African history. I wrote about black people and white.
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Mad Dog and Glory has received positive reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 77% approval rating, with an average score of 6.3/10, based on reviews from 30 critics. The site's consensus states: "Inspired casting and a prevailing sweetness make Mad Dog and Glory an oddball treat." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, based on reviews from 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Smith turned back to fiction, this time determined to write it, and found that he was able to sell his first story to Argosy magazine for £70, twice his monthly salary. His first attempt at a novel, The Gods First Make Mad, was rejected, so for a time he returned to work as an accountant, until the urge to write once again overwhelmed him. He tried another novel: > I wrote about my own father and my darling mother. I wove into the story > chunks of early African history.
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Writing for Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games, Steve Arrants chose Mad Planets as one of the top ten games of the 1983 American Amusement Operators Expo. He praised the "beautiful graphics", "extremely responsive" controls, and concluded "I would rank Mad Planets right up there with other high-tension favorites such as Robotron and Tempest." In a 1983 review for Video Games, John Holmstrom wrote: "it's the frenetic game play and rock-oriented soundtrack that make Mad Planets worth playing." He found the player's ship to be ovely large for the screen, and the lack of new elements in later levels reduced his interest in sticking with the game.
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Ayo Stephens cited that Nigerian culture is sold to the audience throughout the film, giving an example of the scene where Junior (Tobe Oboli) (aged 7) is instructed by her mother, Mona to prostrate and greet his father both in Yoruba and Urhobo, which are respectively his father's and mother's dialects. The conclusion of the film which is left undecided has been subject to different interpretations. Most two popular interpretations are: a first possible scenario which explains that maybe the Araromire is really a powerful and real goddess. Using the phrase "who the gods want to destroy they first make mad", Itua Otaigbe Ewoigbokhan explained that Femi may have been possessed by the goddess to get so irrationally in love with Mona, leading to rage which results in the doom of him and the other parties.
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" Dennis Perkins of The A.V. Club gave the episode B+ ranking, stating "It's a risk—not for addressing homosexuality, but for putting the story in the hands of Grampa, a supporting character used most often for the sort of quick-hit swipes at reactionary codgery mocking internet memes were invented for. But few characters on The Simpsons exist just as their initial stereotypes at this point, and there's a longer-than-most history of the show finding just the right touches of grudging humanity in the old coot to make 'Mad About The Toy' work." "Mad About the Toy" scored a 0.9 rating with a 4 share and was watched by 2.33 million people, making it Fox's second highest rated show of the night, behind Family Guy. Texas State Representative Poncho Nevárez tweeted, "If you ever wondered how Marfa would look like in the world of the Simpsons.
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