Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the team's motorcade crawled across the bedlam of a citywide celebration. Lew turned up the convertible's radio and listened to a newscaster's description of the excitement. A careless woman cut her foot on a broken beer bottle. A man smashed his camera on the sidewalk when a flashbulb failed to fire. Eight nuns standing back from the curbside crowd waved their shy congratulations. Before the night ended, half a million Wisconsinites had cheered the champions, and 35 elbow-benders were in the drunk tank...
While the characters sometimes perform with the bedlam logic of a Marx Brothers film, their creator is still the only master of Bemelmanship-the art of not blowing a shimmering literary soap bubble past its bursting point...
...collaboration of Maurice Desvallieres, is exceedingly standard and exceedingly French French farce. This means sex first, but not in the long run foremost. In such goings-on, slapstick and speed become a good deal more important than spice. The bed is only a prop; the actual objective is bedlam...
...recent gathering of Moscow University students, called to discuss the meaning of Not By Bread Alone, some who had evidently learned to think shouted: "Tell us about Hungary and Poland!" Replied the lecturer: "It's irrelevant!" In the ensuing bedlam the Soviet authorities felt they had solved the problem by turning off the lights...
When the news of Anglo-French military action hit Chicago's mammoth Board of Trade, a flood of orders overwhelmed the grain pits, turned them into a bedlam as traders bawled bids and offers. Wheat, corn. rye. cotton, soybeans, lard-just about everything except onions-soared on the prospects of war shortages, sent the Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index up 1.66 points to 165.79 for the largest one-day advance in 2½ months...