Word: bedlam
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...bourgeois lechers stalk women in the streets, jog from bedroom to bedroom, jump into the wrong beds, kick open the wrong doors, and are finally caught flat-footed in the tangled web of their own deceit. The goal of a Feydeau play is ostensibly the bed, but is actually bedlam...
...that is so complex. Cinematographer David Watkin (Catch-22, The Charge of the Light Brigade) lights the sumptuous sets to give a consistent aura of hallucination. Russell lashes his actors into a histrionic verve that is reminiscent in equal parts of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Living Theater and Bedlam. The supporting cast (Dudley Sutton and Michael Gothard most prominent among them) act like a chorus and look like creatures from a Bosch triptych. Oliver Reed is suitably forceful as Grandier; it is indeed his best performance. Vanessa Redgrave, a consummate actress, is fine as Sister Jeanne, except that...
...people here see that learning is interesting. But it's a slow process. We are in a transitional stage now; many of the students are beginning to settle down and stick with projects for a longer time." He is right. In spite of-and often because of-the bedlam, recognizable learning is taking place. One six-year-old did little but play for six months. Finally he realized that he wanted to learn to read; now he is churning through armloads of library books...
...technetronic revolution. In Between Two Ages he discusses the repercussions of rapid change from an industrial era-with its emphasis on sheer productivity-to a period that stresses services, automation and cybernetics. Being that rarity among futurists, a cautious man, Brzezinski is not sure if utopia or bedlam will result. Meanwhile, between two ages is a time of uncertainty and some guarded hope...
Army basic training has traditionally been a cross between a prolonged fraternity hazing and a trip through bedlam -eight weeks of abuse and instruction aimed at preparing the recruit for the even worse ordeal of war. Now the system may be changing. Convinced that men can be trained to fight for positive motivation rather than fear. Army brass at Fort Ord, Calif., are experimenting with a basic reform in basic training that could greatly change the armed forces and mark the end of the Sergeant Snorkel drill instructor...