Hilda (who never appears) is a maid; the action consists of the increasingly mad struggle between her husband and her employer over who wants her more.
This opera is really about art itself, the fire of creativity that pours out of Cellini's furnace in the mad struggle to cast a statue.
Except at the very top where their tips bend and flex like fishing rods in some mad struggle, the evergreens absorb the bruising gusts and deafening surges of wind, so there's nothing but static and stable air at ground level where I walk.
Characters on "Mad Men" struggle in shame and secrecy with the very things that today are openly, incessantly boasted and blogged about: humble roots, broken homes, homosexuality, unwed motherhood, caring for senile parents.
On July 4th, giving the annual spirit of cricket lecture, Kumar Sangakkara, captain of the national side until April and still a test player, said "a mad power struggle" was destroying the accountability, transparency and credibility of Sri Lanka's cricket administration, called Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).
"Accountability and transparency in administration and credibility of conduct were lost in a mad power struggle that would leave Sri Lankan cricket with no clear, consistent administration," said Sangakkara, who captained his country to the World Cup final earlier this year and is currently playing in the one-day series in England.
The mad Baptist struggles in vain to grow crops in the Congo because he stubbornly refuses to listen to the local experts.
It was to no avail; late in the season the Mad Dogs struggled to attract more than 10,000 people.
But the Gates who emerges in this self-portrait is hopping mad, constantly struggling to contain the boiling inside.
When Charles VI went mad, a power struggle developed between Orléans and his uncle Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy.
Sure, there are lots of exceptions, like Tami Taylor, the self-possessed working mom of "Friday Night Lights," or Hannah Horvath, the outspoken memoirist of "Girls," or the intelligent women of "Mad Men," whose struggles and flaws at least parallel those of the men swarming around them.
