Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DISTURBING AS THIS TYPE of repulsion may be, it evidences a frantic, self-conscious energy that produces most of Bedlam's best and worst aspects. Tension shows up in the jerky diction of the first stories, "Over 4000 Square Miles" and "The Return," which bristle with the odd, awkwardly-placed "nevertheless" and "moreover" and sentences like. "At last Rucker understood that all the sensations of his long experience had this night joined together in a motiveless musical triumph that was almost violent." In such over-intense passages, one conjures up Domini teetering on chair-edge, biting his nails...
...tension, as in the two afterlife fantasies. One of these entitled "Laugh Kookaberry, Laugh Kookaberry, Gay Your Life Must Be" and concerning Dante and devils in Hell, shows the considerable influence of C.S. Lewis, which combines with passion and lively musing to create by far the richest piece in Bedlam. Some dialogue is still overwrought and unconvincing to when the two devils "argue...
...Friday the 20th, from 4:30 to 6, Grolier will fete John Domini, whose novel Bedlam has just come out from Fiction International. Bedlam's genre is definitely a rarity for Grolier, says the bookstore's owner. Louisa Solano: "Domini and Monroe Engel are the only two novelists I allow in the store...
...guest quarters that are still being renovated, when a Secret Service agent told her: "There has been a shooting. The President has not been hit, but he is at the hospital." She decided to leave immediately, even though, as she recalls it, she was told, "It is such bedlam there, so much confusion, maybe it would be better if you stayed here a while...
This is undoubtedly the biggest week in this city's modern history. Sunday, the Browns squeaked by the arch-rival Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-26, at nearby Lakefront Stadium. Bedlam broke out even then, but today the whole world descended on Cleveland...