Word: bedlam
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...Updikes live in a 17th century house in Ipswich, Mass., where their three children and those of the neighbors maintain an innocent bedlam. To escape it, Updike works in a room "in a sort of slum" in the center of town, is "sufficiently Protestant about trying to work every day." He admits that advance readers see his Rabbit "as a kind of beast, almost a satiric creation," but he denies being a satirist and refuses to take sides for or against his character. Is Rabbit a common American type? In some ways, says Updike, but "I don't really...
...Then bedlam broke loose. A dozen detractors wanted the floor to attack Dr. Asian's work and condemn it as quackery. She had one defender, Manhattan's Dr. Osias Leon Friedman, who insisted disdainfully that the Brooklyn doctors had not been using the right kind of procaine. Dr. Gitman retorted angrily that before they began their test, his research team had tried to buy the drug from Dr. Asian herself, to be sure it was the same material, and she had turned them down cold...
...before the Germans swept over Holland, and the caper is to collect all of Amsterdam's industrial diamonds and spirit them off to London. Peter Finch, Alexander Knox and Tony Britton are the raincoat wearers, and it should surprise no one that a good deal of blood and bedlam intervenes before they get the job done. For admirers of internal combustion, there is a grand old Mercedes roadster that is almost as pretty as Actress Bartok...
Then animals ran away with the show. In a bedlam of barking, two packs of boxer dogs hurtled into the ring wearing gaily striped T shirts. Using balloons for balls, they played a frantic game of soccer that brought futebol-mad Brazilians screaming to their feet. Gosha, the Russian bear, came on for the finale to ride a bicycle, toss a few somersaults, wrestle gently with his trainer and balance ponderously on parallel bars. Then the lights went out, and Gosha steered a sputtering motorcycle around the arena by the glow of the headlight alone. As the Brazilians stamped, jumped...
Khrushchev began to play fast and loose with his timetable. After canceling one San Francisco supermarket visit, he decided to invade another, and brought bedlam with him. He rolled unannounced into the hiring hall of the International Longshoremen's union, embraced the union's Red-lining Boss Harry Bridges as tovarish, genially swapped his felt hat for a longshoreman's white cap. Wearing his new cap, he paid a call on International Business Machines Co. President Thomas Watson Jr., toured the IBM plant at San Jose, watched a thinking man's brain as it chattered through...