Word: mayhemic
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...editor of Neurotica, a daring little Freudian quarterly of the late '40s. Legman published his polemical essays attacking violence in comic books. He was an early critic of censorship that allows children to watch dramatizations of murder and mayhem but prevents them from seeing people making love. Lenny Bruce frequently goaded his nightclub audiences with the same point. Legman, never one to be upstaged by a comic, now claims authorship of the slogan "Make Love...
...gentler, less-pressured days of the thirteenth century, when there were no pre-meds or pushy freshman advisers. That was before I saw their first meeting. They were really hitting each other, batting each other over the head with baseball bats and similar instruments of not-so-medieval mayhem. One of them, I saw, got a bloody ear. Instead of doublets made of cloth or gold, they were dressed in makeshift hockey uniforms and do-it-yourself helmets. In some ways it was the last straw. Like everything about Harvard,' it turned out to be much less elegant and much...
...show does mayhem to the visual sense. The viewer is clobbered by an eye-level row of genitals, part of an 8-ft. by 30-ft. nude portrait of Andy Warhol and members of The Factory. Only a few steps away hangs a portrait of President Eisenhower, a crumpled, empty man. It is an assault on the image of Eisenhower that we carry in our minds-the formal Karsh portrait, the White House handout, and the hundreds of others...
...traditional private-eye format does not suit movies all that well. It demands a rigid structure as the detective pursues his investigation like a mailman on his route, moving from door to door, picking up a shred of information, depositing another, occasionally having his appointed rounds interrupted by some mayhem...
...mayhem on TV probably has something to do with teen-age violence as well. One study claims that the average American youth can be expected to watch 11,000 TV murders by the time he is 14. In Boston, a woman was doused with gasoline and set afire shortly after a TV movie featured a similar scene. In Chicago, several murders have followed in vivid detail some inventive killings in the TV detective series Shaft...