Mr. Rand had, after all, become the real-life Cropsey of nightmares — the fictional drooling, child-napping maniac — on the grounds of Willowbrook, the institution where he once worked.
"It is whispered in Christian Europe that the English are mad and maniacs: mad because they give their children smallpox to prevent their getting it, and maniacs because they cheerfully communicate to their children a certain and terrible illness with the object of preventing an uncertain one.
The towering Mrs Child was a maniac with blades, never meeting a knife she didn't like; she once jointed a chicken with a sword, and was spoofed bleeding to death on "Saturday Night Live".
My artistic career was ended by Godzilla — as a child monster-movie maniac, I stopped attending painting classes when the long-awaited film (the American version, of course, starring Raymond Burr) showed up on Saturday-morning television.
But Cardinal's procedural work is careless, and his frantic efforts to unmask a homicidal maniac link awkwardly to a child-pornography investigation more professionally handled by his partner, Lise Delorme.
My artistic career was ended by Godzilla as a child monster-movie maniac, I stopped attending painting classes when the long-awaited film (the American version, of course, starring Raymond Burr) showed up on Saturday-morning television.
By Richard Brody April 18 , 2014My artistic career was ended by Godzilla — as a child monster-movie maniac, I stopped attending painting classes when the long-awaited film (the American version, of course, starring Raymond Burr) showed up on Saturday-morning television.
Green asks how "one maniac leading an army of abducted children could hold half a country hostage for 20 years".
"My husband is in the rat race, and people in Florida drive like maniacs," said Mrs. Spillett, who has four children and four grandchildren.
At 7 tonight, "Maniac Magee," based on the Newbery Medal-winning children's book by Jerry Spinelli, takes on racial issues, specifically segregation.
Most parents are unlikely to go trick-or-treating with a child dressed as the "Friday the 13th" maniac Jason Voorhees.
