Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.
She's an envious and miserable woman, and a touch mad, but, even as we long for her to be thwarted, we laugh at her acid take on life.
The lightness of touch "Mad Men" shows with other characters and other situations just isn't present for Betty stories.
But no one would touch it: Mad Libs was too gamelike for book publishers and too booklike for game manufacturers.
Although the race has failed to capture the public's attention, the first debate featured a lively back-and-forth that touched on "Mad Men," the Mets and the "poking" feature on Facebook.
But Khibla Gerzmava, a house favorite who enjoys an international career, sang Lucia with limpid expressivity and was touching in the mad scene when she stepped away from the huge train of her wedding dress to stand in a simple shift, as her thoughts turned to Edgardo.
Immaculately paced, genuinely touching and stuffed with Mad Men-esque period details, it's a page-turner that loves words themselves.
"The kind they'll talk about in Dublin as 'a bit touched, a bit mad, but a genius,'" she says.
Free markets offered vast new opportunities in Internet, wireless, broadband and fiber optics, and this touched off a mad scramble to get in on the bonanza.
It's all touched off a mad dash to get people registered.
