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Playoffs or not, All-Star or scrub, this mayhem has to stop, and with the sky-high salaries and egos of the modern ballplayer, harsh reactions are the only way it will...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Anyone For Caning? | 5/6/1994 | See Source »

...claims that the other may be a pawn of the Chinese. Shamar says of his rival regent, "Tai Situ is degenerate, and the people around him are like, why . . . like gangsters." Members of the opposing camp like to point out that the name of the troublemaking demon behind the mayhem in the old prediction can be read as the word "nephew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Future Buddhas | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...murder has become the No. 1 cause of death for women in the workplace; for men it is the third, after machine-related mishaps and driving accidents. And while most workplace murders occur during stickups in taxis or convenience stores, the picture of on-the-job mayhem in recent months has included a dainty Connecticut flower nursery, the homey pizza parlor of a Denver suburb and just, last Wednesday the high-tech interior of a Japanese company in North Carolina's lake-dotted Research Triangle Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Workers Who Fight Firing with Fire | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...principle and experimentation, illusion and distortion are too much to sort out. Ionesco deliberately muddles his discussions with multiple speakers all declaiming at once, and the simple absurdity of people metamorphosing into thick-skinned pachyderms all testify to his won uncertainty. The effect is a mood of irrationality and mayhem as close to the experience of a real Nazi town as can be imagined. Today his vision nags like a trauma sustained too long ago to recall clearly, haunting audiences like a repressed memory of extreme violence...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Rhino Stumbles Under Own Weight | 4/21/1994 | See Source »

...Savage Nights" does not have the poignancy of Angels in America, but shows more grit than the pre-packaged Academy-Award winning, "Philadelphia." It tells the story of a modern man's life without absolutes, excepting himself. And when one's absolute is visibly disintegrating, mayhem is sure to ensue...

Author: By William Winborn, | Title: Bracing AIDS Film Looks at Sex and Death | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

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