Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Getting the Frisbee to the end zone is what stirs the bedlam. The plastic disk can be moved only in the air, and whoever catches it is allowed only three "momentum" steps before passing it on. The offense keeps moving only as long as it controls the Frisbee; when passes are blocked, intercepted, dropped or go out of bounds, the Frisbee is turned over to the other team. When a player has the Frisbee, only one opponent at a time may try to block his pass. Substitutions are allowed during breaks in play, and fouls are called on the honor...
...balding Cleveland garbage-disposal contractor, on the lam from his wife's mobster brother, takes refuge among the Ritz's imps of the perverse. What follows is a bedlam of straight-gay confrontations. Robert Drivas directs with manic speed and lashings of hysteria, perhaps recognizing that if this show stops for a minute, it may never start up again. In The Ritz, McNally abandons the idiosyncratic comic vision he brought to Bad Habits (TIME, Feb. 18, 1974) in favor of old vaudeville and burlesque routines. Still, there are plenty of laughs left in those, whichever way you Swing...
...graduates' presence, in many cases, drastically changes the make-up of the crowd. Whereas Dartmouth, whose location makes it difficult for alumni to appear en masse at many athletic events, can fill Lynch Rink with student rowdies who create earsplitting and often obscene bedlam, Harvard's Watson Rink is mild, with rowdiness limited to the notorious Section...
...have received a more crushing valediction than this, written in an art journal in 1843, on a 26-year-old painter named Richard Dadd. He probably never read it, for he had just been bundled off to Bethlem Hospital (whose lugubrious halls of madmen had given the word "bedlam" its English use) in a strait-waistcoat...
French farce is customarily associated with the bedroom. There are no bedrooms in Scapino, but the evening is filled with sheer comic bedlam anyway. The Young Vic presented this Molière farce earlier in the season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It has returned in a hands-across-the-sea gesture to aid the financially beleaguered Circle in the Square Joseph E. Levine Theater. Scapino should prove to be just the right box office tonic...