Word: amuck
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...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
...women's and children's apparel last year, has never been weaker. Since 1973, at least 600,000 jobs have disappeared, leaving fewer than 1.9 million. Low-wage producers in the Far East and Latin America are gobbling up American markets like a Pac-Man run amuck. Hardest hit among U.S. manufacturers is Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, which has the largest share of domestic apparel sales. It is beset by relatively high labor costs, exorbitant rents and a panoply of other problems that come from doing business in the heart of a huge city...
...story is developed as if it were written by an amuck word processor that somehow got plugged into a survey of the viewing preferences of videogame freaks. The characters are flatter than Pac-Man and Frogger, the action is all hand-eye coordination. The concluding aerial chase above downtown Los Angeles is full of searing flashes, but it is actually as unaffecting as a round of Missile Command. The real estate takes a beating, but not a single innocent bystander is harmed as the aircraft careers around skyscrapers. That, is perhaps the least of the many implausibilities Badham hustles...