Word: mayhemic
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...starts among the working-class youths who fill up the low-cost, standing-room areas known as terraces, similar to the areas occupied by the Liverpool and Juventus fans in the Brussels stadium. Sir Philip Goodhart, a Conservative Member of Parliament, believes that one reason there is less fan mayhem at sporting events in the U.S., a nation that many Britons regard as violence prone, is that its stadiums have fewer standing-room sections. Says Goodhart: "It is very difficult to riot when you are sitting down...
...athletes, instinctively got along and--despite the loss of Doug, who left Harvard during sophomore year--wound up, by all accounts, one of the closest rooming groups anybody knows. "We honestly do everything together," says Doyle. In their large, cluttered common room, the television hardly ever stops, and the mayhem that surrounds it includes competition for the less-than-coveted "Asshole of the Month" award, whose previous winners are commemorated on one wall...
...Amid the mayhem, Jordan's King Hussein was continuing his efforts to win U.S. support for the wider Middle East peace initiative he launched with Arafat in February. Last week, after meeting with Arafat in Amman, the King flew to Cairo to brief Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on progress. This week Hussein arrives in Washington for discussions with President Reagan. His aim: to win Washington's backing for talks between U.S. officials and a joint Jordanian Palestinian peace delegation. Such a meeting would be followed, according to Hussein's plan, by direct Arab-Israeli negotiations over the future...
...early next year, nobody is squealing -- certainly not the actors, who have yet to film or even see the script finale. Says Warren: "It's all very suspicious. No one knows what anyone else is up to." Everyone is nonetheless promising a rollicking comedy thriller packed with mirth and mayhem. If not, it's the producers in the toilet with the bomb...
Clark Clifford, the former Truman aide who has monitored the political mayhem for four decades, looked out his office window at the White House last week and said, "There is a greater stridency than I remember. We are in a troubled period." The late Vice President Hubert Humphrey, himself battered by a wave of national protest, foresaw the problem years ago. "The first sign of a declining civilization," he fretted, "is bad manners...