Word: bedlam
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...confusion, three Peronista Deputies, using wet handkerchiefs as makeshift gas masks, managed to slip into the building where 65 other Deputies were trying to hold a session. When the Peronistas arrived to take their seats, the chamber erupted into bedlam-many Deputies loudly defended their presence, some screamed insults at them. Becerra vainly shouted for order, but gave up in despair. He ordered the chamber lights turned off and left the room. The Deputies filed from the building, trying to pick their way between police and rioting Peronistas. One Deputy, slowed by a lame leg, was hit in the chest...
James G. Elaine, a Maine Republican, came to the speakership in 1869, when the House had again fallen into bedlam ways. With nearly 250 members crammed into a tiny chamber, the House was known as the "Bear Garden." When all else failed, Elaine flung himself on a couch behind his desk and suspended business until order was restored. Elaine strengthened the speakership with the ruling that a party was obliged to ratify the candidate chosen by the majority caucus-thus ending the chaos of intraparty and coalition candidacies (under the Constitution, the Speaker need not even be a member...
...France its postwar resurgence; both are still prospering but at a slightly slower pace. North Italy has sustained its boom. In Milan the Gothic finials of the renowned duomo now have to fight for recognition against a skyline of striking new skyscrapers. From the Piazza del Duomo rises the bedlam that only Italian traffic can generate. In front of the cathedral's stately bronze doors Milan is digging an entrance for its new subway. Everywhere Milanese businessmen move at dogtrot pace in a furious pursuit of profits, and lavish restaurants, such as Giannino, have geared their cuisine and prices...
...moved to Paris, where Ida died suddenly after the birth of a fifth. The next year John married again, and in time four more children were born. The family lived in France for a while, then Dorset, and finally in a white brick Georgian house in Hampshire, a charming bedlam of bright children and assorted animals that was John's headquarters until he died...
Novelist Lanoux, 47, writes in a nervous, jazz-paced style, equally appropriate to bars and Bedlam. His message is that there is not much difference inside or outside the asylum. The dedicated chief psychiatrist at Mariakerke. who plays 400 different roles, one for each of his lunatics, concludes gloomily that "the more care you provide, the more patients you find," and thinks, not unhappily, that "if I were to let go, I'd pass over to the other side...