Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good execution was scheduled. Americans may have displayed an unwholesome interest in the departure of Gary Gilmore two years ago, but that was nothing compared with the macabre fascinations, the public hangings, the Schadenfreud of other centuries. In the 17th century, Londoners sometimes spent their Sunday afternoons at Bedlam mocking the crippled and demented...
...loudspeaker for MOVE to surrender. More water was poured into the basement. Trained police sharpshooters aimed at the house. Suddenly, someone fired a shot and the battle began. Policemen and firemen fell to the ground--some wounded, some trying to avoid bullets, one dead. After minutes of gunfire, the bedlam suddenly ceased, MOVE surrendered. But the toll was heavy: one police officer dead; about 18 policemen and firemen injured, many of them seriously; two MOVE members injured; and three MOVE sympathizers injured. It was the first political shoot-out in America in quite a while...
Angel Street managers to be a nice trip, taking you back to the good old days when Bedlam was probably the most interesting place in the English-speaking world. And in contrast to today's apocalypse of drugs and free sex and other anti-Victorian diversions, a glimpse of Angel Street will teach you to appreciate your sanity
...worst, free jazz borders on bedlam. At its best-as in the Newport concerts of Taylor and Coleman-the music has internal rhythms and themes that give it direction. For 50 minutes, Taylor-hallmark shades and knit cap in place-and his sidemen wrapped Carnegie Hall in a solid sheet of sound, each member of the group swapping and developing ideas from the others. A frenzied, virtuoso performer, Taylor roiled tempests on the bass of the piano, then modulated into short phrases and lyrical passages that contained echoes of Bartók and Debussy...
...exactly one month ago, the outcome of the contest between the two swimming powers depended on that of the last relay. Trailing only 332-330 going into the event, Harvard sent the explosive quartet of Malcolm Cooper, Duncan Pyle, Julian Mack and Hackett to the blocks amidst the absolute bedlam that surrounded the most exciting finish to an Eastern championship meet in years...