Word: pandemonium
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...HAVEN, Conn.--Amidst the pandemonium that took over the Yale Bowl Saturday, there stood one man, only 5'10" tall, but towering over the rest of the field...
...last few hours before the poll closings, the after-work turnout in Montreal itself turned the city into a kind of campaigning pandemonium, with long waits at the polls that are extraordinary and unprecedented in a country that has been used to 85 percent turnouts in precinct elections," McWhirter reports. "At Eddie O'Sullivan College in downtown Montreal, police cars diverted a full block of honking traffic so that voters could stand in freezing sleet waiting to take a number and go inside. They're being cheered on by passers-by just to give them a little solidarity in these...
...audience erupted into whistles, cheers and catcalls, Joshua Oppenheimer '96-'97 rose from his seat in the center of the auditorium. Oppenheimer, who wore a black mini-dress with boa trim, a broad-rimmed hat and cats-eye rhinestone sunglasses, began to blow a whistle and shout above the pandemonium...
...thwarted their attempts to investigate the failed savings and loan owned by the Clintons' Whitewater business partner. Resolution Trust Corp. investigator Jean Lewis said she believed "there was a concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate the results of our investigation."TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that despite "the televised pandemonium, the real impact of the hearings so far is in the thousands of documents Leach is dropping on the assembled press corps." In one of the documents, Hillary Clinton says: "If Reaganomics works at all, Whitewater will be the western hemisphere's mecca...
...Pandemonium broke...