Word: mayhemic
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...surprising that Ghanaians would flee their own country's repression and economic mayhem to search for better conditions in Nigeria. Unfortunately, the politics of uncurbed ambition flourish in both countries. When both meet, the combination means the sacrifice of the welfare of millions to the personal authority...
...strolls across this hauntingly lovely campus in the beginnings of the great Southern autumn, it is difficult to conceive the chaos and mayhem of Sept. 30, 1962-the gunshots and burning vehicles, the bricks and tear-gas canisters, the federal marshals and National Guardsmen and airborne troops confronting the mob. Two people died, and scores were injured. It was the last battle of the Civil War, the last direct constitutional crisis between national and state authority. James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran, was enrolled as an Ole Miss student the next day. As a native Mississippian, I think...
Presuming an eventual football settlement, players began informal drills at high schools and on hillsides to stay fit or just to stay together, avoiding mayhem. If injured, they are on their own. "We're told we can't let them into our facilities for medical treatment," fumes Davis. "That's just stupid." Only a handful of players openly opposed the union in the strike's first days, but a few went along grumbling. "Austria is neutral," said New Orleans Place Kicker Toni Fritsch, an Austrian. New Orleans Player Representative Russell Erxleben polled his membership about dropping...
Only at the climax does Frankenheimer build something durable out of the mayhem: a metaphorical bridge between old and new Japan, between the integrity of the samurai and the ingenuity of the technocrat. The warlord's fortress is an executive suite; the watchtowers are electronic eyes; hero and villain cross swords over a photocopier, wrestle on sleek chairs and desks, almost electrocute each other with a computer's exposed wires. The final blow, be warned, is a vertical slice through the bad guy's cranium. One wonders how many members of the audience will stay around...
...well accept memory as a fiction machine and get on with it. Mercifully he lightens this intellectual load by turning his life into a soap opera and putting its popular conventions to higher literary uses. Banalities become oddly resonant and trivialities bristle with jeopardy. Episodes of scandal, lunacy and mayhem are drawn together by the two main story lines. A romance between Mario, 18, and Julia, 32, is a mock cliffhanger; the rise and fall of Pedro Camacho, a compulsive writer of soap-opera scripts, is a comic tale with tragic relief...