madwoman


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a woman lunatic

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Here the stereotype of the sexually aggressive madwoman who is now viewed as also physically threatening and agitated is most in evidence.
From the charged sphere of a distant apartment full of orange appliances and a madwoman, he's ready to show you what's up his sleeve.
No one in power - with the possible exception of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who is now marked as a madwoman and renounced by her boss - is much interested in solving the social problems that cause crime and violence, not even the most obvious one: access to guns and ammunition.
Tony Awards for outstanding contributions to the theater in 1948-49 were awarded to Death of a Salesman, play; Kiss Me Kate, musical; Rex Harrison for his performance in Anne of the Thousand Days and Martita Hunt in The Madwoman of Chaillot.
The play proper (i.e., with Reno deleted) has some good things going for it, mostly in the highly textured performances of Ellen McLaughlin as a decadent Dietrichy actress; Olek Krupa as a refugee Trotskyist film director; Marian Seldes as a ghostly madwoman (or mad ghost); and Frances Conroy in the role of a well-meaning, ineffectual liberal who, as fear eats her soul, slowly but inexorably upstages everyone around her.
His involvement with a madwoman and with a boy from his home town inform his lifetime pursuit to understand the relation of history to myth.
Giraudoux has a humanistic and compassionate view of the adult world; nevertheless, he delights in escaping from it in extravagant comedies like The Madwoman of Chaillot.
The season opens June 19 with The Madwoman of Chaillot, by Jean Giraudoux, which runs through July 19.
But she is best known for her films with Lino Brocka in the 1970s, particularly 'Tinimbang Ka Nguni't Kulang,' where she played the iconic madwoman Kuala.
The setup of Catherine Lowell's debut novel, The Madwoman Upstairs (Touchstone, $25.99, 352 pages, ISBN 9781501124211), is an English major's fantasy come true.
After both sisters are sent home for different reasons, the story plunges into the mystery of burglaries taking place near the parsonage and a madwoman running the outskirts of the village desperate for an escape.
The two make an unusual pair: Quinn is from the coal regions of Pennsylvania, 49 years old, and self-described as a "menopausal madwoman," has a 20-year-old son in the Navy and a shaky marriage to a pharmacist.
by a mumbling madwoman who remains on the loose, the NYPOST.com reports.
"And now with the chance of writing a new column for the Daily Mirror, people will realise that I'm Leesa Harker, real-life Belfast mum and author, not Maggie Muff, imaginary Belfast millie and madwoman."