Word: mayhemic
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...High is one of those screaming, hard-rocking incitements to mayhem, noise and more noise. "Let's Fly!" is the message and the song is certainly flying high among the most-played AM variety of songs. The beat keeps right on thumpety-thumping beneath whining guitars--hardly intellectual rock but then that's what gives it its appeal. Esoteric rock, with a "message" can become as boring as vitamin pills--this stuff, however, doesn't fall into that trap. Typically an ARS song begins with a minimum of frills, a few tight riffs and you're rocking down the highway...
...evidence of Albert Parry's passionately indignant survey of atrocities from Robespierre's Reign of Terror to the mayhem of today's Middle East, terrorism has always been an equal-opportunity employer: outrages were-and still are-performed by people of every race, ideology and class...
...Horn with a cargo of smoldering coal. Its crew, as was customary, is a forecastle full of alcoholics, shanghaied by waterfront "crimps." Kidnaping of able-bodied seamen was a routine necessity, Hayden reports: wages were $1 a day and the hard-driving officers were licensed bullies who regularly committed mayhem and murder...
...sales by 18,000, to 78,000, while his rivals' dropped slightly, to 125,000. The fight brought out the worst in both publications. After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black boxes and red arrows, Murdoch provided a daily diet of rape and mayhem, tortured tots and killer bees. One classic story: "A divorced epileptic, who told police she was buried alive in a bathtub full of wet cement and later hanged upside down in the nude, left San Antonio for good this weekend. The tiny, half-blind woman, suffering from diabetes, recounted...
Soldier of Fortune features mayhem and violence for its own sake. For them, killing is pure technique. But technique begs application. It's scary. It's just plain scary...