Word: bedlam
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...roared Góes Monteiro, 67, charging down the aisle. Mello drew his Smith & Wesson .38, ducked behind a seat-and fired twice. An old hand at political gunplay, Góes Monteiro whipped out his own .38, but another Senator jumped him before he could fire. When the bedlam subsided, a third Senator, José Kairala, 48, was lying in a pool of blood. Apparently the second shot from Mello's pistol had ripped into his abdomen. Doctors kept him alive for four hours, and then he died...
Kurosawa in the raw is not everybody's meat. Not since Sergei Eisenstein has a moviemaker set loose such a bedlam of elemental energies. He works with three cameras at once, makes telling use of telescopic lenses that drill deep into a scene, suck up all the action in sight and then spew it violently into the viewer's face. But Kurosawa is far more than a master of movement. He is an ironist who knows how to pity. He is a moralist with a sense of humor. He is a realist who curses the darkness-and then...
...London hackwriter's son, born in 1697, that English art took on a personality of its own. For Hogarth, London was a stage, and when he painted and engraved the progress of his rakes and harlots like acts in a play, or when he opened the innards of Bedlam and Gin Lane, he caught the drama of England's lower depths as no other artist had. These works thrust upon English art a sense of flesh and blood, a spirit of realism from which it drew sustenance until sentimentality deluged the land in Victoria...
...friendships are firm ones. Their cliques of four or five are as Final as anything institutionalized. Not that they are unfriendly to people outside their clique--if anything, .a constant friendliness is inherent to the style. They are cordial to the point of exuberance, sometimes to the point of bedlam. If male they would be shouting at football games; as it is, they can discuss a hockey game vivaciously throughout a dinner. When ased what adjective they would use if they wanted to give another girl the highest compliment possible, they unanimously answer "charming" or "feminine...
Miss Sexton, a member of the Radcliffe Institute, has contributed to The New Yorker, Harper's, Accent, Hudson Review, and Partisan Review and has published two volumes of her verse, To Bedlam and Part Way Bask and All My Pretty Ones. In 1959 she held the Robert Frost Fellowship at the Broad Loaf Writers' Conference...