To cope with his most harrowing ordeals, he lapses into half-mad spells, reciting the names of his beloved botany texts ("Flora Sylvatica, Flora Indica") and contemplating his love for Devi: "Close they had been, ever since he could remember, like two eggs in a nest".
Now 32, he came to Norwalk from El Salvador at 13 and after high school worked his way up from dishwasher to cheese grater to cook in a Liberty Park pizza house, went on to the Black Goose Grille in Darien and for a mad, briny spell, shucked 2,000 oysters any given Saturday night at the Chart House.
Poopagore found a tank, and in a mad five-minute spell we took every Conquest marker.
Newcastle United caretaker manager John Carver believes his side's "mad 10-minute spell" was the reason they fell to a 2-1 defeat at Queens Park Rangers.
If the finale of "M*A*S*H" aired today –- a finale of a drama-comedy that's regarded as one of the best to ever air -– people would have been mad that B.J. spelled out "Goodbye" with the rocks.
'MAD' ABOUT THOSE 'MEN' Advertising is always influenced by popular culture, and Advertising Week this year was deeply under the spell of "Mad Men," the series on the AMC cable channel, now in its second season, about a fictional agency in the 1960s.
There ain't nothing but Noise in this world, nothing but the constant thoughts of men and things coming at you and at you and at you, ever since the spacks released the Noise germ during the war, the germ that killed half the men and every single woman, my ma not excepted, the germ that drove the rest of the men mad, the germ that spelled the end for all Spackle once men's madness picked up a gun.
Some pieces are antique, or at least retro (check out Mad Men-era bracelets that spell out names such as Peggy and Marilyn), while others are handmade from repurposed materials.
The spot uses letters from the logos of JWT clients to spell the words "Mad Men" and concludes, "Making brands famous since 1864" — when the agency was known, as it was in the "Mad Men" days, as J. Walter Thompson.
