Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan and headed south. The Great One promptly took his own advice, and so did most of the other 113 passengers. Gleason was highballing to Miami Beach to begin taping his fall television series. CBS donated $18,000, plus $1,500 in tipping change, to sponsor the rolling bedlam called the Great Gleason Express. Amid the blares of the stuck diesel horns ("BAAAAH!") and a familiar howl ("HOW SU-WEET IT is!"), the dancers, cronies, reporters and flacks attacked 500 Ibs. of assorted meats, 30 cans of mock turtle soup, 2,614 one-shot whisky bottles and, as they dragged...
...Carnovsky has certainly deepened his Lear, not only conceptually but also through lovely nuances of acting and timing and some strangely effective gestures and line-readings--such as his tapping of his crazed skull when he asks poor Tom o' Bedlam (who by now has become his "philosopher"), "What is the cause of thunder?" (Act III, Scene 4), thereby linking quite appropriately the storm on the heath and the storm in his tormented mind...
...intriguing that the teach-ins have rarely featured speakers with a responsible stake in the administration of any policy, much less that of our government in Vietnam. When such speakers have appeared, attendance has fallen and the remaining audience has subjected them to the cat-calls of night-long bedlam. Rarely have the teach-in speakers considered rational alternatives to the blunt, pressing problems of dealing with an implacable, illusive enemy who refuses either to yield or to negotiate. Rarely have alternative action proposals been examined in the light of their complex consequences for our friends, our enemies...
When he finished "Freedom Land," bedlam broke out in the audience (as it did, I'm told, at every single performance). The significance of the day was not lost on me. At show's end, I realized that I had been listening to the most marvelous natural baritone I had ever encountered in my life, and that I had experienced no such frissons from a singer since Flagstad and Milanov were at their peaks...
...years of auctioning, Chance had never faced such confusion. However, Christie's catalogue for the sale clearly stated, "if any dispute arises between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold." As bedlam took over, Chance declared: "I have no option but to reopen the bidding." In a matter of seconds, with Marlborough no longer interested, Rembrandt's Titus became Simon's. The price: $2,234,400, a bare $64,000 below...