Word: amuck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dinosaurs run brilliantly amuck in Spielberg's Jurassic Park...
...lissome paleobotanist Ellie Sattler and Hammond's two young grandchildren -- come to Jurassic Park for a sneak preview. Then things go spectacularly wrong. The novel's first half is a controlled tram trip through this high-tech zoo, the second half a terror- filled obstacle course strewn with dinosaurs amuck: swooping pterodactyls, dilophosaurs that spit venom, a famished tyrannosaurus and a Panzer division of velociraptors, the meanest and cagiest of the menagerie...
Baseball is indeed facing a grave crisis, but it is primarily political and not economic in nature -- a question of governance and power relations rather than the law of supply and demand run amuck. The vacant office of the commissioner of baseball symbolizes the void at the center of the game; the post has remained unfilled since a majority of owners forced the resignation of Fay Vincent last September. Vincent's so-called sins included his prickly independence and his determination to use his powers to act "in the best interests of baseball" and his aborted attempt to limit...
Tokyo, pulverized in 1996 by an amuck scientific experiment (Is there any other kind?), is in 2019 a place of repressive political reactionaries, marauding radicals and pill-popping motorcycle freebooters who do motorized combat with each other on the ramps of the city's elevated roadways. In this story, the motorcyclers are the good guys, mainly because everyone else is worse. The technocrats capture one teen and try to turn him into a human receptacle for some kind of higher-energy field (Is there any other kind?). Things go haywire. He menaces his old buddies, threatens to reduce the entire...
Love and War is shrewder and funnier, but its therapy-session psychologizing tends to run amuck. Wally and Jack, the couple from opposite sides of the tracks, dissect their relationship in first-person comments to the camera. (He: "I have this feeling about her. It's like the first time I rode the Cyclone at Coney Island. I was strangely excited, and a little nauseous at the same time." She: "I've always found his type very attractive, but I'm in a dangerously vulnerable place right now.") Conversing with each other, however, they revert to adolescent stammering. Jack tries...