Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DETROIT, September 17, 1968--Listen to the golden voice of Tiger announcer Ernie Harwell: "Don Wert singles, Kaline comes in to score, and it's all over.... The Tigers have just won their first pennant since nineteen hundred and forty-five. . . .The Tigers mob Don. . .Just listen to the bedlam here in Tiger Stadium...." That night, they danced in the streets of downtown Detroit...
...Then bedlam. An argument broke out among the six judges. The Rumanian coach ranted. The crowd chanted Davidova's name and clapped in unison. A smaller Rumanian claque shouted "Nah-dee-yah! Nah-dee-yah!" Nadia stood motionless, arms akimbo, eyes far away. Twenty-eight minutes after her dismount, the scoreboard flashed the disheartening news: 9.85, only good enough for the silver...
...diversionary trip to the Triton Hotel in Havana. A Castro showpiece, the 22-story facility was turned into a luxury stockade for exiles willing to pay $44 a night. Guests were forbidden even to visit the oceanfront, and the crowded lobby became as squalid and confused a bedlam as the harbor was. Exiles lined up twelve deep to call loved ones in Havana over wall phones. Elevators broke down, and fistfights broke out. One Miami sales executive, clutching $8,000 in cash, patrolled the corridors seeking a boat to take the eight members of his family home. "This is madness...
Every type of cherished ploy from the classic Marx canon is here, the inane non sequiturs, the sappy puns and the bedlam chases, in this instance through the byzantine corridors of Tony Walton's red-wallpapered dollhouse of a set. Dick Vosburgh splices his own lines into the action as if he had collaborated on the films. To use a song title from the show: Hooray for Hollywood...
...could find or lay flat on the pavement. As I was carried along with the crowd pressing into the side door of the cathedral, I saw young militants rolling over on their bodies to make their way across the street, some with small-caliber guns in their hands. The bedlam was horrifying...