Word: mayhemic
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...Little boys have always played fighting games, but never before have they been egged on by such an overwhelming barrage of electronic violence. Never before has make-believe mayhem been such Big Business. The typical child takes in four hours of action-packed TV a day and watches countless commercials from the toy manufacturers that sponsor the shows. No wonder sales of war toys in the U.S. rose more than 200% during the past decade and exceed $1 billion annually. When the kids grow bored with the cartoons and plastic soldiers, they graduate to the electronic battlefields of Nintendo, Sega...
...mind's too sharp, my body too precious, to foul it with drugs." On the very day of his arrest, the mayor had attended a memorial service for a high school star athlete who was shot to death while walking in a drug-infested neighborhood. In 1989 drug-related mayhem contributed to an all-time city record of 437 homicides, a deadly total that could be exceeded this year. Last week, as the city suffered through its 28th murder since Jan. 1, Barry unaccountably asserted, "The war against crime and violence is succeeding...
Reporters, like vampires, feed on human blood. Tales of tragedy, mayhem and murder are the daily stuff of front-page headlines and breathless TV newscasts. But journalists rarely restrict their accounts to the sordid, unadorned facts. If the victims of such incidents are sufficiently wealthy, virtuous or beautiful, they are often turned into martyred saints in the epic battle between good and bad. Thus the spectacle of a wounded husband, with a dying pregnant wife at his side, desperately calling for help in a reputedly dangerous Boston neighborhood, inevitably set editors' pulses racing...
Postal officials say it is just a coincidence that postal employees have been involved in such mayhem, but the general public might nonetheless wonder if the mail isn't driving the mailman crazy. Psychologist Mark Haffey, who counseled workers after the Taylor killings in California, warned that "two employees identified strongly with the violence by John Taylor. They indicated that they had experienced similar impulses but had not acted on them...
...minimum, Mikhail Gorbachev's dual program of glasnost and perestroika may collapse if the downward spiral is not halted by the end of 1990. At worst, the growing shortages of energy and food this winter could wreak social mayhem. "If we don't see improvement in the stores, we will soon see riots in the streets," warns a top Soviet criminal lawyer. "Anything could spark it. And the government would have to suppress it with force." Among the signals of trouble...