Word: mayhemic
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...urban warfare. "People know that I'm not responsible for the crime rate," says Dinkins. "They know that crime is directly attributable to drug addiction." The mayor may well be right. But Dinkins' statements strike many New Yorkers as a dismaying confession that government has no remedy for the mayhem that has made toddlers unsafe in their own homes...
...considered just a part of the show. Few athletic officials seem upset. Instead of quickly handing out fines and suspensions, too many coaches and managers engage in long-winded debates about whether offending players should be punished at all. Winning is what's important, so what does the mayhem matter, even if it is against the rules...
...this end, there is plenty of high-tech destruction and gratuitous violence. But it is violence of a slightly different sort; darkly comical, Robocop II's well engineered mayhem bears more of a resemblence to the black satire of death orchestrated by the Joker in Batman than to the senseless slaughter in Total Recall or the recent series of Rambo movies...
...boast elaborate sets and gadgety special effects. (TR created a Martian colony on a Mexican soundstage.) You want it to blend science fiction, action adventure and suspense. (TR filches blithely from Star Wars and Blade Runner, from RoboCop and Hitchcock films.) You want it to have plenty of cartoon mayhem for the ^ blood brigade. (TR meets its kill quota in the mid-hundreds.) Oh, and if it's not too much trouble, you'd like the movie to be fast, witty, glamorous, with thrill piling on giggle atop gasp...
...parading up and down the four-mile strip, honking horns and whistling at the girls, since the 1950s. But with 5,000 cars choking the avenue on Friday and Saturday nights, rock throwing, fighting, drugs, drinking and backseat sex have replaced good old-fashioned gawking. Police say the motorized mayhem puts a drag on protecting the rest of Modesto. "I've seen them take weapons and drugs from the kids," said Mayor Carol Whiteside. Last fall there was even a gang-related shooting...