Word: mayhem
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...Zuckerman, Roth's fictional alter id and hero of a comic trilogy that has forever flattened the myth of the glamorous writing life. Zuckerman, of course, is not Roth but rather the fullest and most personal expression of a theme that has come to dominate his work: the mayhem unleashed by those who would escape their pasts. This may be what David Kepesh in Roth's The Professor of Desire had in mind when he spoke stiltedly of "the destructive power-of those who see a way out of the shell of restrictions and convention...
...does Author Richard Grenier, a sometime scriptwriter and now film critic for Commentary. Grenier's best scenes vividly mix farce and mayhem, but they remain set pieces. He is less concerned with tightening the strands of his narrative than with slashing away at the twin hypocrisies of Celluloid City and oil country. From Libya to Egypt to Iran his film makers go, struggling to shore up their collapsing finances, and everywhere they encounter nothing but fanaticism, ignorance, treachery and greed. Readers interested in a balanced view of the Arab world should look elsewhere. If life is not fair...
...been said that life was less complicated then and that the Depression bound families to a common cause. Perhaps, but in Berger's small neighboring towns of Millville and Hornbeck, such pretty thoughts do not have a prayer against ornery pride, low animal cunning and the mayhem loosed by the crazed and the lovestruck...
...guerrillas led by Abu Nidal, who broke away from the P.L.O. in 1974 after angrily accusing Arafat of growing soft toward Israel. So strained are their relations that Arafat and Abu Nidal have publicly ordered each other killed. Abu Nidal and his group obviously are quite capable of mayhem: besides admitting to Sartawi's murder, they took responsibility for trying to kill Israeli Ambassador to Britain Shlomo Argov last June. The P.L.O. blames Abu Nidal's group for assassinating its representatives in Europe over the past five years...
...only at sports events that violence is done Customers who wouldn't dream of jeering at Barbra Streisand or Luciano Pavarottie seem to feel that a ticket to the grandstand or the bleachers is a license to the grandstand or the bleachers is a license to commit mayhem on the entertainers...