Word: mayhemic
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...head of Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, who was besieging Bethulia. Such killings, however, were defiant acts against a conqueror and thus not strictly foreign policy assassinations. Rome was sufficiently bloody with assassinations-the murders of Julius Caesar and Tiberius Gracchus, for example-but these were factional acts, intramural mayhem...
...criminal career that has spanned two decades, Gary Addison Taylor, 39, an itinerant Michigan machinist, has robbed, raped, stabbed and otherwise brought mayhem to at least a dozen women in three states. Incredibly, courts and psychiatrists time and again have declined to keep him confined. Last week Houston police were holding Taylor on serious charges that may finally put him behind bars for good...
...congested metropolitan areas where legitimate expressions of violence are so limited. Many of the "silent majority" who feel so frustrated, angry and helpless today can readily identify with the beleaguered, assaulted hero of the "war on ice." They experience a vicarious satisfaction from the open aggression and mayhem on the ice, and indeed, it is powerfully exhilarating to let one's emotions "all hang...
...That's a fine woman!" exclaimed an admiring Sherlock Holmes onstage at Broadway's Broadhurst Theater as the redheaded villainess was led from the mayhem. Then he added quietly, "Yet her crime is commonplace." In the audience, another redhead was creating her own kind of fuss. In a reclusive mood, Katharine Hepburn, 65, hid her face from autograph seekers at intermission. When an amateur photographer tried to snap her, she shooed him away so fiercely that he fell. "I really thought she was going to belt him," said one impressed observer, who earned a growl from Kate: "Beat...
...musical's promise was that it could conjure up the madcap mayhem of the Keystone Kops, the antic nostalgic appeal of Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties, and Mabel Normand, his mistress and the star of his two-reelers. Despite formidable talents working with will and wile, the promise is not kept...