Word: mayhemic
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...were mostly Arab or black, but they were also mostly French, born and bred in the neighborhoods they were setting ablaze. Their anger spread in an arc across northern Paris, just a few miles from the city's glittering heart, as one desolate neighborhood after another joined in the mayhem. Thousands of police and firemen struggled to douse the rebellion and found themselves inflaming it. In one suburb, four shots, a rarity in France, were fired at the cops. French leaders tried to strike a balance between condemning the violence and seeking to understand it, but they seemed powerless...
...city in western Iraq, it's too late to make friends. One year ago, the Marines launched an assault to take back Fallujah from insurgents, including some loyal to al-Qaeda leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who had overrun the city and used it as a base for spreading mayhem throughout Iraq. A week of house-by-house fighting left hundreds of insurgents dead--and saddled U.S. forces and the Iraqi government with the task of rebuilding a battered city and persuading 210,000 uneasy locals to return home. Some military analysts hoped Fallujah would be where the U.S. could...
...Worst Network Violence The airing of jeremiads from Attorney General Janet Reno and other D.C. solons against TV mayhem. Unable to reduce the crime rate by law or enforcement, they hope to do it by reducing the minuscule amount of violence on prime time. Killing the network messenger will change nothing, since the real carnage is on cable -- and the nightly news...
...moms etched their frustration into the tough velum of the lantern. Fifty-year-old men with mustaches festered in the shadows, eyeing the pumpkins lustily. Cheddar Ted argued with a volunteer about how to produce “the opposite of a question mark.” Amid this mayhem, something had eluded us. Even though we had lit literally hundreds of jack o’ lanterns in the pouring rain and taken some mad creepy photos, we felt that same emptiness that often results from eating an entire bag of candy corn. Just then, we spotted Stollichnaya whiling away...
Backstage at the Loeb, a minor case of mayhem ensues as students rush about in preparation for their highly anticipated season-opening Loeb Mainstage production, the controversial German play, “Lulu.” Opening night is just four days away, but the man in charge doesn’t seem worried. “It’s traveling the country telling stories—and collecting even more while you tell them,” says Visiting Director Brendan Hughes. “It’s life, concentrated.” A freelance professional director...