Word: mayhem
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Over the subsequent years, in the Spring when the juices were flowing and everybody was bored with studying, someone would start the call in the Yard. Immediately it resounded throughout and was the rallying cry for, shall I say, "simple mayhem...
Still, it is depressing to watch an expensive, crafty movie that never soars beyond its cold desire to score the big bucks. Unlike Jaws, Alien does not use stylistic cunning to excite the audience; it just shovels on the mayhem. Unlike Star Wars, Alien has no affection for past movies of its genre; it just rips them off. Stripped of its futuristic setting and pretensions, this film is an oldtime B monster picture. Alien might just as well be about a huge scorpion loose in a haunted house, circa 1953. While the murder sequences are executed with all the realism...
Left-and right-wing extremist groups claimed responsibility for the bombing, which both explained as an attack on Rome's Communist municipal administration. Whoever did the deed, the blast was only part of a surge in mayhem that has paralleled the campaigning for the June election that is to produce Italy's 42nd postFascist government. Since early April, after Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti's attempt to form another Cabinet was stillborn because the Communists refused to support it, Italy has been racked by new violence...
...A.C.C. mayhem is scheduled to end this week with the annual tournament to decide the conference's automatic representative in the N.C.A.A. championships. The fans are already atremble with anticipation, scalpers are busy preparing hefty markups, to $225 or more a ticket, and the teams are mulling over old grudges. Predictably, the team that went into the tourney with the best record has wound up losing the event ten times in its 25-year run. The pain of defeat is not as great as it once was, however, since the N.C.A.A. recently has been inviting two A.C.C. teams...
...killed. After two hours of skirmishing, the attackers seized the embassy and took its occupants, including Ambassador William H. Sullivan, as prisoners. It is likely that only the intervention of forces loyal to the Ayatullah, who responded to Sullivan's desperate call for help, prevented even more mayhem...