Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ground loading up. Marine Captain Glynn Hodges landed at the embassy in midafternoon; his H-53 chopper was too big to perch on the roof, so it came down in the compound. "My troops couldn't believe the scene," says Hodges. "People were climbing fences. It was bedlam. We were afraid of the crowds. We had to wear gas masks, though we saw only smoke, no gas. We also wore flak vests. They were hot and heavy. We were really uncomfortable and scared...
Brian Friel is the Shakespeare of post-modernism. His plays, roaming the interstices between past and present, between perception and reality, between intention and result, preserve a captivating, comforting, cadenced poeticism. Beneath this refined and lyrical language, a bedlam of misguided passions and misconceived ideas rages all the more dramatically...
Earnest concern with peace and quiet only seems to come into play when a tutor has a clutch of toddlers to pacify. Needless to say, this concern does not extend into the dining hall, where the litter of spirited youngsters screeches, cries, and spits up a cacophonous bedlam...