Word: mayhem
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...them, the deer season was the only chance each year of really getting free of feminine domestication to hunt, drink and rough it, a combination of Boy Scoutery and male blood rite. In New Jersey, for a brief period, deer hunting also became a form of semi-legalized mayhem as unqualified hunters, often as loaded as the weapons they carried, took to the woods with buckshot, and, along with their deer, managed to kill a fair number of cows-and fellow sportsmen...
Deathtrap. A dandy scalp tingler-literate, amusing, land-mined with scarifying surprises. John Wood is the chief perpetrator, and he juggles mirth and mayhem with superb adroitness...
...Last week he put even more heat on Hollywood, as the Federal Trade Commission released its report showing the lengths to which the entertainment industry goes in marketing mayhem and sex to children under 17. Gore and running mate Joe Lieberman, a longtime critic of the industry, vowed that if these companies don't change their selling practices, a Gore-Lieberman administration would give the FTC new enforcement powers and prosecute them for false advertising...
...bold production of Antony and Cleopatra in the ghostly waters of Adams House Pool, with frigid temperatures and floating death cooling the flames of Shakespeare's most passionate tragedy. Not that it isn't lively--Sellars sustains the initial gimmick with scene after scene of slapstick splashing and general mayhem, but balances his off-the-wall antics with a sound sense of the appropriate; invention almost seems subordinate to the text. If it frequently resembles a circus, it is an indisputably Shakespearean circus, the Bard doing breast-stroke, the actors barnstorming with the kind of relish rarely unleashed in Harvard...
...loser serving a double life sentence at San Quentin for murder and kidnaping: "The walls in my head were thicker than prison walls. With TM, those walls have come down." Other converts include members of the Mexican Mafia, Aryan Brotherhood and Black Guerrilla Family, groups well known for making mayhem in California prisons. "It don't sound right to say I enjoy being here, but it don't bother me like it did before," says Felix Padia, a Folsom inmate who has been meditating for 17 months. Says Convicted Dope Peddler Willie Castaneda, 55: "I am even beginning...