Word: mayhemic
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...village needs one more inhabitant to graduate into a town. Though Buttrio Square is the center-of-life in an Italian community, it looks like the market place of a dozen Ruritanian capitals. Up goes the curtain, and out pop youths and maidens committing the usual merry-month-of-Mayhem. Thereafter, there is much strenuous dancing, deplorable banter, and songs with such titles as Let's Make It Forever and You're Mine, All Mine...
...appropriating lapta, the capitalist U.S. perverted it into "a bestial battle, a bloody fight with murder and mayhem." Teams are called by such aggressive names as Tigrov and Piratov. A big-league player, if he is not killed in action, lasts only six or seven seasons; by that time he is "ruined in health and often also crippled." The capitalists squeeze huge profits out of beizbol, but the proletarian players are "in a condition of slavery . . . bought and sold and thrown out the door when they are no longer needed." Perhaps because the editors feared that readers might not swallow...
...chiefly distinguished for fine camera work, the haunting theme music of Guitarist Tony Mottola, and a leaning toward psychological melodrama. Disconcerted by the response to The Lady on the Rock, Russell & Lumet may call a halt to further experiments in realism, get back in the groove with the uncomplicated mayhem and murder that are the staple of TV's suspense shows...
...rough & ready National League, where almost anything short of mayhem is a fair way to stop a man, Richard has earned more than his share of scars from slashing sticks and skates. His grin, without his upper plate, is toothless. Two broken legs and a broken arm made him the Canadian equivalent of 4-F in the draft. But in this give & take, Richard has learned to give with the best of them. He once got so infuriated that he knocked out the New York Rangers' "Killer" Dill twice in a single night...
...relation to real persons or places is purely coincidental. But "The Mob" still has plenty to recommend it in Crawford's excellent acting, its snappy dialogue in the best Raymond Chandler style, and the constant suspense of characters in double roles. After an hour or so of general mayhem in alleys, bars, cheap hotels, and black sedans, the Law finally closes in with the aid of several cagy scientific gimmicks and the Villain gets it in the back. The only revelation here is on someone's heaving thorax, but "The Mob" is still good entertainment...