Word: mayhem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silence the 'roughness' was given by Michigan came from a false attitude that a defeated team should not complain of mayhem, Professor Hobbs asserted, but he felt that it should be brought out into the open...
Most of this mayhem is instigated by the U. S. Treasury, whose agent seems to be replacing the ubiquitous G-Man as Public Friend Number One. The T-Men are after Cagney for various crimes ranging up to train robbery; he is assisted by his aging mother who is determined that her son should achieve social success. Cagney is less amply helped by Virginia Mayo. Miss Mayo alternates her finely-built presence between an un-Johnston office night-gown and a turtle-neck sweater, between Cagney and the cops and his cohorts, depending how the legal wind is blowing...
There it ended, with Referee Ruby Goldstein rushing in to throw his arms around helpless Fusari and save him from further mayhem, just 56 seconds before the fight was scheduled to end. In his dressing room, triumphant Rocky climbed upon a table the better to see and be seen by the mob of reporters and photographers that crowded around. Crowed Rocky, waving a hand for silence: "Don't I do a job on those welterweights? . . . especially salamis from Jersey, who are my special meat...
While the producers of Whiplash seem chiefly interested in illustrating the varied arts of mayhem, they were not able to resist dragging in a little Moral Problem. Clark, the human punching bag, is getting the treatment because he wants to rescue Alexis from her sinister mate (Zachary Scott) and retire from bad fights to paint bad pictures. The catch is that the wicked husband is paralyzed from the waist down, and thinks up his villainies in a wheelchair. No hero can sock a man in a wheelchair; no heroine can divorce him. How to get rid of him? Whiplash solves...
Boston Garden is a modern Colossueum. Under its blinding are lights, the best hockey players of the world engage in brutal, high-speed, modified mayhem. The incredible pace of pro hockey puts the amateur college game in the unfortunate position of a poor relation...