Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merry as the bedlam often is, the critical fact remains that U.S. stage satire is all jaw and no teeth...
...tragic, disquieting calm. Since he lacks power to implement them, his compassion and his forgiveness to Cordelia serve only to pain him. In the final scene, deep in grief over Cordelia's death, Carnovsky distractedly twines his hair. It knots, like the hair of Poor Tom the Bedlam beggar. Stripped of authority Lear...
...sucked at his bottle as hard as ever, treated his children like sibling rivals and Caitlin like a mother-whereupon Caitlin, who by this time had decided that Dylan was frustrating her literary talents as well as her womanly instincts, screamed like a baby. The house became a bedlam, and tempers did not improve when the wolf once more turned up at the door-in the grim guise of the Treasury, which firmly demanded that Dylan deliver the income taxes he had dodged for years. Something drastic had to be done, and Dylan unfortunately did it. He arranged...
...especially heavy. One cop was knocked cold, conked by a flying Coke bottle, two others had minor injuries, 231 beatlenuts fainted, 94 got first aid, and five-months-pregnant Julia Stewart, wife of the Kingston Trio's John Stewart, was nearly trampled when she was jostled to the bedlam floor. C'est la guerre. Flying back to London, the shaggy O.B.E.s relaxed by counting the booty-well over $1,000,000 for a two-week tour in eight cities-and decided that, after all, war was swell...
...brokers who passed their seats on the bolsa down through their families, collected such lucrative commis sions on currency-exchange transactions that they have had little incentive to push stock purchases. Long confined to only two hours a day, the trading sessions usually took place amid such bedlam that little serious business was ever ac complished. In recent years, taxes of up to 85% on dividends and Brazil's runaway inflation have made the stock market less and less attractive to investors. Only three months ago, daily trading volume on the Rio exchange fell to practically zero for many...