Word: mayhem
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...site to express their faith; one woman holds an ailing child and prays for him to be healed. While Emma prays to the Madonna for a rebirth of their love, Marcello stands at the site merely as a reporter, an observer. As night falls, rain comes down and mayhem ensues. People begin to riot, tearing branch by branch the tree where the Madonna was seen, and the little boy dies. The morning reveals the world as emptier than before...
...exactly at a moment such as this, in the aftermath of a searing crime, that gun-control advocates run into a dilemma. For each person watching the mayhem on the 5:33 who came away thinking it is time to take the guns away from the madmen, someone else was thinking it might be time to go out and buy a gun. A lot of people, in fact, may be thinking both at once...
...from bridges onto passersby. Shopgirls get picked up in bars and wind up raped by men who think they are merely having fun. Deranged people wander about, talking to themselves or roaring confrontationally at strangers. An ill-advised glance at a fellow subway passenger leads to threats of mayhem. These are everyday realities in many big American cities, unbearable yet borne, mostly in grim, self-imposed blindness and deafness to what is all around. They somehow become more resistant to willful ignorance when placed on the stage in a play as eerily uninflected as Howard Korder's The Lights...
...tough-guy poses are just the work of artists assuming a character, other times bragging that their bad-boy credentials are for real. Both things can be true. Caught up in the echo chamber of pop culture, rappers can hear their own songs egging them on to their old mayhem, even as their record sales lift them out of the ghetto...
...picked up in bars and wind up raped by men who think they are merely having fun. Deranged people wander in and out of almost every public place, talking to themselves or roaring confrontationally at strangers. An ill-advised glance at a fellow subway passenger leads to threats of mayhem. These are everyday realities in many big cities, unbearable yet borne, mostly in grim, self- imposed blindness and deafness to what is all around. They somehow become more resistant to willful ignorance when placed on the stage in a play as eerily uninflected as Howard Korder's The Lights...