Word: mayhemic
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...generals who have run South America's biggest country since 1964 could only agree. The military government has gone all out to break the guerrillas, who have been bombing barracks, robbing banks and snatching diplomats for the last two years. Still, the mayhem goes on. Kidnapers have seized the U.S. ambassador, the Japanese consul-general in Sao Paulo and the West German ambassador, ransoming them for the release from Brazilian jails of 60 assorted criminals and opponents of the regime...
...Pulps, Fifty Years of American Pop Culture. Compiled and edited by Tony Goodstone. 239 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Mayhem, rape, demonology and interplanetary carnage in a representative sampling from Mammoth Adventure, War Aces, Thrilling Wonder, Western Trails, Spicy Detective, etc., including facsimile ads for "nose shapers," neckties that glow in the dark and "real live pet turtles." The horrid yarns still entertain and-because they have been so outdone by TV and today's other de-scribers of mindless violence-they are even soothing in a creaky, campy...
...wavered in the face of the F.L.Q. challenge; that fear was heightened by the fact that Montreal is holding municipal elections this week. Second, Ottawa wanted to reassert the principle of federalism as strongly as possible. Finally, there was the F.L.Q. itself, which was planning a round of urban mayhem "so terrible," as one high government official said, "that I cannot even tell...
...riskier place than it was only a few years ago. Racial unrest, drug addiction, campus mayhem and rising crime have added not only social hazards but also economic costs to everyday life. When a house is burglarized or a school vandalized, almost everybody has to pay some part of the bill-through higher insurance rates. Changes in society, including the real or imagined decay of moral standards, have also exacted a toll. Insurance executives used to assume that loss claimants were honest; now the presumption is that many people cheat a bit. Greedy motorists and crooked repairmen conspire to kite...
...sour white wines, sweet feminine conversations, more-secular-than-thou swinging clerics-can't be all bad. His pub, like many in England, has a legendary ghost, a 17th century scholar and necromancer who conjured a leafy monster to life in the backyard for purposes of terror and mayhem. Naturally, both ghost and monster turn out to be more than a legend...