Word: mayhemic
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...Saturday's two attacks. "These killers have no brains at all. Look at what they are doing to the country." Some Egyptians take comfort in the belief that the perpetrators of the recent attacks appear to have been poorly-organized amateurs with a limited capacity for mayhem. The background and motives of the attackers remain fuzzy, and it is not known whether they were attempting to exploit the growing political tension in the country, or were simply imitating the anti-Western violence that has become endemic in countries such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Thus far, there is no sign...
...Foreign rights have been sold in nearly a dozen countries, and the book will appear in Asia in June. Malaysians looking for insights into their country's modern condition may be disappointed. Other readers may find themselves enjoyably lost in a land of magic and mayhem...
...merrily flouts the laws of time and physics. Teeth fly upward in slo-mo; then a Road Runner--style chase zips by in superspeedy-mo. The Pig Sty denizens have the resilience of Warner Bros. cartoon characters: lips, throats, bosoms expand to gargantuan size, then snap back. Punctuating the mayhem are sound effects (mooing, clucking, cat mewls, toad croaks) worthy of a Spike Jones symphony...
...Mayhem ensues when one perverted English psychiatrist, the secretary he tries to seduce, his nymphomaniac wife, a hotel page, a self-assured government official, and a police sergeant find themselves together at a psychiatric ward, caught in a web of hidden agendas, lies, and gender disguises. As if the plot contrivances weren’t confounding enough, many of the plays’ absurd lines seem to make no sense at all, only becoming relevant at the show’s revelatory (and morally disquieting...
...gathered at a wedding party to listen to the singing of Mirwais Najrabi, a pale, chestnut-haired 13-year-old. He performs in an open courtyard, under the night sky, to an audience that has endured so much suffering and grief over years of oppression, war and mayhem. Yet for this brief, transcendent moment, their burden is lifted by the exquisite purity of the boy's voice...