And the first-night parties for new arrivals more often entail a round of drinks after the show than a mad plunge into the paparazzi.

The men sagged, exhausted with more than their mad plunge in the path of the earthquake to the desert floor.

But then, as he persisted in his mad plunge toward the far end of the meadow, the wind became like a thousand needles delivering a dose of powerful anesthetic.

He wished he'd worked out the problem of how to get inside before he took this mad plunge.

A daredevil Yezda, seeing his only road to safety, took that mad plunge in the dark and lived to tell of it.

Even Scraps tried to check the mad plunge of their excited steed.

Angelo's mad plunge took care of Crix.

For many, like Susan Broer, 46, the mad plunges of July became too much to bear.

Once a skylark was out of sight, the only thing to do was to wait for it to descend in the mad plunge that always seemed suicidal but never was.

The racing clouds overhead stopped in their mad plunge, and the stars that had appeared among the tatters of that cloud went out.