Word: mayhem
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...COMIC MAYHEM ENSUES WHEN... he learns how to drive...
...Massachusetts's General Hospital emergency room, Mixco captured the physical manifestation of loss with several disturbing but brilliant shots. The sterility of Mixco's black and white media lends his work a quiet remove that is strikingly juxtaposed with scattered syringes, rubber gloves and wrappers of ER mayhem. Mixco, who plans to attend medical school in the future, beautifully mingled his artistic and technical sensibilities with wires emerging from the vein of an arm in what appeared some avant-garde piece of sculpture...
Beverly Hills doesn't look like a combat zone. Rodeo Drive screams money, not mayhem. But sweetie, kiss-kiss, get out your designer flak jacket, because there's a war going on in Hollywood, and Wilshire Boulevard is ground zero. Taking up a position at one end is Michael Ovitz, the former uber-agent who repped Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks before quitting for a short-lived tenure as president of Disney. Four miserable years later, he's back from exile, offering his services as a manager and raiding clients from Creative Artists Agency, the firm just a mile away...
...outdated: massive consolidation hit the freight-barge business in the 1980s, and large firms like the Ingram Barge Co., which owns the Grainger, imposed large-firm professionalism: no drinking or smoking on board and a zero-tolerance drug policy enforced with random testing. Even a crew bent on mayhem would have trouble scheduling it. The tows run 24 hours a day, and for the length of their 30-day shifts, the boatmen never touch dry land except to take a boat through a lock...
...about sex, the incoming Speaker of the House, Bob Livingston, resigned on the House floor because of his own adulteries, and the air over Baghdad exploded. So did the air over Washington, where the constant outcry over sex, lies, desperation and hypocrisy had created an atmosphere of venom and mayhem. All around the city there was a feeling that brutal, lasting damage had been done to an already threadbare culture of political accommodation, that impeachment would be not the end of something but the beginning. And that it would be something...