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Much sideline speculation centered around the new, paddle-powered waterbed rafts. These innovative crafts are just beginning to appear on the raft-race circuits, but, from all indications, it seems unlikely that they will ever catch on. Both the Water Bedlam (skippered by Tinker Lindsay, Tad Paul, and Lisa Noll of Adams) and the Delta Queen (manned by Henry Hardy and Terry Valenzuela of Adams House) ended up upside down. Apologists blamed the officials' launch for causing the spills, but cooler heads pointed to a basic instability of design. The crew of the Water Bedlam was somewhat compensated for their...
Wallace election night headquarters in the Grenada Room of the Park Plaza Hotel here was bedlam last night. Bedecked in Wallace hats, Wallace neckties, and Wallace skirts and sports jackets, a crowd of several hundred cheered each new report of a Wallace victory. Announcements of returns in counties in the northern Florida panhandle, where Wallace received between 65 and 75 per cent of the vote, were greeted with yells and dancing...
Conditions in some of the men's wards would have made Bedlam look inviting. One ward holds 40 seriously disturbed adults, some of them violent. The ward is staffed by two attendants, one a woman; they have all they can do to keep their patients from hurting themselves or each other. They cannot always keep their patients healthy. Hepatitis, which thrives on poor hygiene, is rampant at Willowbrook. Many of the patients have diseases and defects that will ultimately kill them. Some die of other causes: ten years ago, a measles epidemic swept through the institution and killed...
Once there was Bedlam, where curious Londoners could while away an afternoon by staring and laughing at the insane, who were kept in chains, writhing and screaming. Over the centuries, the treatment of the mentally ill has slowly improved. Yet just this month, an official inquiry into cruelty at a Lancashire mental hospital described how patients were locked in closets for being "mischievous," how they were half-strangled with wet towels if they became violent, and how one victim had been injured when male nurses filled his dressing-gown pocket with alcohol and then set it afire...
Feydeau's beds and bedlam are most happily with us again in the 1896 work Le Dindon (The Turkey), here entitled There's One in Every Marriage. Following a Feydeau plot is like trying to trail a snake through a bayou. It exists by twists and turns, sudden panics and slithery asides...