Word: havoc
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...were heartbreaking compromises between director and studio, the script was tragically trimmed to get the running time within the realm of marketability. (When Titanic opened in December of 1997, the running time was listed as 2:78 instead of 3:18. People, apparently, were fooled.) Filmmakers ruefully remember the havoc of making the great movie, how if only they had a little more time or a little more money, they could have got it just right...
What's the difference between a militant extremist who sends anthrax in an envelope and a nitwit prankster who sends cornstarch? Both are terrorists, sowing fear and wreaking havoc. Their actions have malignant and far-reaching consequences. Hoaxers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. ALEXANDER J. WERTH Farmville...
...knights come alive and beat each other senseless, to the Quidditch field, where young witches and wizards on broomsticks fly through the air playing a magical hybrid of basketball and soccer; from Hagrid's baby dragon to the 12-ft.-tall mountain troll (both computer generated), who wreaks havoc in the girls' rest room; from the teetering magic shops of Diagon Alley to the secret Track 9 3/4, where students board the train to Hogwarts...
This weekend as scores of goblins, ghouls, Russian prostitutes and other creatures of the night spilled out onto the streets of Harvard Square to wreak havoc in celebration of Halloween, I was reminded of the need we have to reinvent ourselves. For one night, we donned masks, capes and make-up to forget ourselves momentarily, indulging the secret passions of our collective, and often invisible...
Exotic weapons get a lot of attention, but conventional explosives and suicide bombers in pizza parlors, discotheques and shopping malls can spread terror with stunning effectiveness. Fertilizer bombs like the one that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., in 1995 could wreak havoc with bridges, tunnels and buildings. Nuclear-power and chemical-manufacturing plants make even more horrifying targets. The 1984 leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, may have killed 3,000. Estimates of the final death toll from the 1986 explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear plant run as high...