Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than any other in U.S. history. Strung out along main drags in every city, fast-food franchises become the strip, identically chaotic collages of glowing signs and prefab construction. The helter-skelter of the strip is the urban critic's most convenient cliche --cheap-jack American laissez-faire run amuck...
Though he can claim credit for inventing many of the tools of modern corporate mergers, Rohatyn (pronounced Row-ah-tin) these days is like the sorcerer whose apprentices have run amuck. Last week, speaking before a group of TIME editors, he criticized the new excesses of takeover madness and warned that these practices are endangering the health of the American financial system. Said he: "Today things are getting badly out of hand...
...That ( the good ones are masterpieces, and the bad ones aren't a total loss." It would be fine if films with such titles as Porky in Wackyland (Clampett), Show Biz Bugs (Freleng), Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (Jones), What's Opera, Doc? (Jones) and Duck Amuck (glorious Jones) were embraced by the canons of academe. But imagining this, one can also hear Daffy grouse, "What a revoltin' development thith ith." Better, perhaps, for the Warner siblings to wear their garlands lightly, or let them fall off, while their antics continue to provide not so innocent delight...
Guidotti, working with Schechter, suspects that eugenol--or some byproduct created when it is burned--immobilizes infection-fighting cells, allowing viruses and bacteria already present in the lungs to run amuck. The other possibilities, he says, are that eugenol or another ingredient has a direct toxic effect or that it triggers an acute allergic reaction. Last month the American Lung Association issued a preliminary warning about clove cigarettes, and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta plan to look for further evidence of kretek-induced illness...
...resurrection of crime and punishment, '70s style. But McGinniss titillates the reader with revelations he fails to amplify. Was MacDonald addicted to Eskatrol, a psychotropic diet drug? Is he a borderline homosexual, tormented by confused sexual identity? Or is he an aberrant symbol of the "me" generation gone amuck? The answers may never be known, but the carnage remains. Readers may stay in step with the inconclusive author: "I have followed the tangled paths as far as possible and they have led me to places where I did not ever want to be." -ByJ.D. Reed