Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indiana plays its game in the 17,000 seat Assembly Hall which was completed last year, 12,330 people, a small crowd by Hoosier standards, turned out to watch Saturday's season opener for both squads. Assembly Hall was constatnly in bedlam as the Hoosier fans went wild whoever an Indians player scored a basket or brought in a rebound, At halftime, Indiana's brass hand played and a girl in a sequin costume twirled a baton at midcourt...
...state" which delivered "its mandate to George McGovern." He concluded his talk by saying "Come hell or high water, we'll obtain our objective, that supreme objective of everyone here and everyone in the country: peace in this world." The cheers were lusty, but there was none of the bedlam which had broken out in Drinan's headquarters on election night two years ago. Drinan smiled as be heard the cheers, consented to a few interviews, shook some hands, and then disappeared once again...
While the rest of the cast is exemplary, it has only a shadowy existence on the periphery of the play. On from the first curtain to the last, Bates makes the evening blazingly his as a man slouching toward bedlam-hair bedraggled, trousers rumpled, eyes aglaze, and with an adder's tongue in his cheek. It is an indelible image that will find its way into dramatic legend.-T.E. Kalem
...repressed hostility, commit her to the care of a therapist whose attempts to reach Janice are thwarted by his dismissal from the hospital. Wednesday's Child strains credulity here. The doctor's reasonable, low-key therapy sessions hardly seem radical enough to get him dismissed even from Bedlam. Janice, submitted to electric shock and heavy drugs, retreats ever deeper into her dark private world, until at film's end, standing lost and mute, she faces a class full of bored medical students. It is clear that Director Ken Loach (Kes) and Scenarist David Mercer (Morgan) intend their...
...brought air travel to a temporary halt in more than 30 countries last week. In Europe, the strike was 75% effective. Swissair pilots, legally barred from taking part, were given permission by a cooperative airline management to join the protest. Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, ordinarily uncontrolled bedlam, looked almost like a normal air terminal with 91 of 131 scheduled flights canceled...