Word: bedlamic
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...have received a more crushing valediction than this, written in an art journal in 1843, on a 26-year-old painter named Richard Dadd. He probably never read it, for he had just been bundled off to Bethlem Hospital (whose lugubrious halls of madmen had given the word "bedlam" its English use) in a strait-waistcoat...
French farce is customarily associated with the bedroom. There are no bedrooms in Scapino, but the evening is filled with sheer comic bedlam anyway. The Young Vic presented this Molière farce earlier in the season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It has returned in a hands-across-the-sea gesture to aid the financially beleaguered Circle in the Square Joseph E. Levine Theater. Scapino should prove to be just the right box office tonic...
...then there is Dostoevsky, who, says Fyodor, the hero of Nabokov's The Gift, "turned Bedlam back into Bethlehem." Nabokov doesn't like old Fyodor because of his mysticism, his sentimentality, his journalese. There is a difference of type: Dostoevsky was a rough writer, who often scrawled or dictated under the burden of absurd deadlines, and Nabokov is a careful, multiple re-writer. Nabokov's condemnation must also be seen as the answer to a question forced especially on any Russian writer: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. It is a question of native sensibility...
...Guard provides one of the best shows in town, without cover or minimum. At the height of the evening, clusters of singles stand sardine-fashion, gripping their drinks and watching the action. By midnight, the place is a low-lit, smoky, shrieking bedlam-a blend of screeching rock and swirling bodies. Over in the Other Room, a special chamber for the post-35 set, a champagne music duo is playing Make It Through the Night...
...cancel the contract by having the paper seller of the beans pay him his profit in cash. At the Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBT)-where more than half the commodity action takes place-and other exchanges, such transactions are made in a bedlam of shouting and waving by "pit traders" who do the buying and selling for brokers forwarding orders from clients...