Word: mayhemic
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...Blue Bedspread (Random House; 209 pages; $21.95) illustrates that observation by dealing artfully with unchallenged male mayhem directed at women. Jha, who escaped a career in mechanical engineering to study journalism at the University of Southern California, frames his story in a series of impressionistic and quietly menacing scenes. The technique works, but some may find the tableaux approach somewhat oblique...
...total mayhem," Pankau said. "It had to have been completely demoralizing for the other team. Too bad no one got it on tape...
Fast-forward 10 years. Suppose the same boy, now 16, kills a member of a rival gang. On his way home, he picks up a pizza and rents a video--a comedy. He enjoys a few yuks and then turns in early. This segue from mayhem to amusement would be taken as proof of his brutality. A jury would find it easier to give him a stiff sentence than if he had gone home and paced the floor, racked by remorse...
...boob tube, usually blamed for inciting mayhem and pyromania, also provided Waddellis sewing inspiration. iI was watching a Garbage video on MTV and I really liked Shirley Mansonis dress. Then I turned to my mom and said, eI want to learn how to sew.i She pretty much taught me everything from there.i At the tender age of 13 she was hooked. And sheis never turned back. Her average daily schedule goes something like this: iI sew for about two hours a day, everyday. My personal record was 12 straight hours of sewing. I sew womenis clothes, menis clothes, underwear, anything...
...exaggerated version of the Boomers in Malcolm is a breakfast-food commercial gone psycho, a battle zone where there's always one less frozen waffle than child and where three brothers--a fourth's in military school--commit hilariously baroque mayhem on one another and the house: "Leave the squirrel alone and get the fire extinguisher!" we hear in one scene. Supporting Muniz is a crack cast, especially Jane Kaczmarek as Lois and Erik Per Sullivan as littlest brother Dewey, an amiable first-grader with the brain of a turnip...