Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jacques Tati has made three previous excursions into the amuck world of M. Hulot, upon whose heron head rain down all manner of comic disasters. Mr. Hulot' s Holiday (1953), the first, still seems the best, the most genuinely poignant and inventively funny. Further installments - Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967), photo graphed in 70 mm. and yet to be released in the U.S. - have grown progressively more precious. Often the complexity of a Tati gag outweighs the punch line. In Traffic, it overwhelms it. Ingenuity, not wit, is the real point of the exercise, and laughter is strangled...
...best-known characters of Chinese folklore is Monkey, who is forever running amuck and terrorizing celestial Establishment figures like the Jade Emperor. As Stanley Karnow notes in his account of the Cultural Revolution, Monkey also happens to be one of Mao Tse-tung's favorite characters. He has even likened himself to Monkey in a poem, wielding the great cudgel of "class struggle" against his enemies and history...
Harvard was able to break the big play, however, Mark Wheeler, a very fast transfer halfback who ran amuck all afternoon, broke one for a touchdown on the first play of the game. Taking a pitchout from starting quarterback Eric Crone. Wheeler raced 71 yards down the sideline, as the inexperienced UMass defensive backs overcommitted themselves to Crone's well-executed option...
...finished last season with a dismal 4-5 record, they have a lot of enormous linemen returning from injuries have come back to plague them in pre-season. Yale has switched to the wishbone, releasing Dick Jauron from his fullback duties and perhaps giving him another opportunity to run amuck through the League, as he did as a sophomore halfback...
...toward the dark shadows of a previous age," the President pompously told Moscow last night. "We do not ask you to sacrifice your principles or your friends." Reaching a new depth in sickening self-righteousness, Nixon instructed his opponents to tuck in their tails and run. As he ran amuck, he demanded restraint...