Word: bedlamic
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When he finished "Freedom Land," bedlam broke out in the audience (as it did, I'm told, at every single performance). The significance of the day was not lost on me. At show's end, I realized that I had been listening to the most marvelous natural baritone I had ever encountered in my life, and that I had experienced no such frissons from a singer since Flagstad and Milanov were at their peaks...
...years of auctioning, Chance had never faced such confusion. However, Christie's catalogue for the sale clearly stated, "if any dispute arises between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold." As bedlam took over, Chance declared: "I have no option but to reopen the bidding." In a matter of seconds, with Marlborough no longer interested, Rembrandt's Titus became Simon's. The price: $2,234,400, a bare $64,000 below...
...open, while Soloist David Tudor banged directly on the piano strings with a hammer, executing John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The movie collage Breathdeath offered a drawn foot coming out of Richard Nixon's mouth. In French Playwright Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside and the roof and walls caved in to illustrate lonesco's philosophy that life is absurd. Electrically powered kinetic sculpture by Len Lye and Nicolas Schoeffer moved, twisted, roared...
...Home, as he took the floor to blast Labor for raising taxes, strangling credit and threatening to cancel the British aircraft industry's multimillion-dollar project for the supersonic Concord airliner. Home could hardly be heard. For as he began to speak the House dissolved into a raging bedlam of angry partisans, bellowing insults at one another, shaking fists, waving sheaves of papers in the turbulent air. Amid repeated pleas for order, Sir Alec managed to charge that the Labor government had gone back on its campaign promises to revitalize Britain, turned instead to "panic measures" and "hysterical accounts...
...hand-drawn cartoon of his family, Director Elia Kazan a hard-cover copy of his late wife's poem in honor of President Kennedy, and Burl Ives went so far as to enclose with his card a sermon by the Dean of Duke University Chapel, entitled "Bethlehem and Bedlam." But along with all the frankincense and myrrh was an ever increasing band of Scrooges-Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and Earl Warren among them -who continued to cry humbug to the greeting game and sent no cards...