Word: mischiefism
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...here, recognizably and delightfully, are two weird dudes: a political figure stripped of his moral authority and taking it with a lack of good grace, and a hero who is deeply delusional. Woody turns weak and spiteful; he contemplates criminal mischief to discredit his rival. ("I had power,/ I was respected,/ But not anymore," spits out Randy Newman in one of the film's three very grownup sing-along tunes.) And Buzz is, in the blithest, most genial way, nuts. If you've never in your life seen a toy have a nervous breakdown, Buzz's will make it worth...
...headed for the entrance. They will abandon their Zodiac four or five miles out at sea and negotiate the reef with the kayaks. Reaching land, they will hide the kayaks and climb both seawalls with grappling hooks. With luck they will have a day or so for mischief before they are caught. The men plan to tag Mururoa's buildings with Greenpeace stickers and graffiti, slip notes to some of the press people invited by the French to witness the explosions, write a few postcards of Mururoa and drop them into the PX mail slot, get the French to search...
...mischief has already begun. On the fourth floor of a renovated Navy warehouse, just across Arlington National Cemetery from the Pentagon, is the military's Automated Systems Security Incident Support Team. It's the Pentagon's technological 911 force, dedicated to responding to attacks on the military's computational ganglia. In the 18 months ending July 1, the support team received 28,000 calls for help from operators of the U.S. military's worldwide computer network. The team isolates thousands of hacker programs, known as "critters," and then securely cages them for research. Such programs are increasingly powerful and easy...
...long as I've known him. He battled for the American soul, out there on the edge of a dangerous frontier--battling the forces of the Grinch, the forces of darkness. It was a typical old flower-child battle for the forces of good and mercy and gentleness and mischief. You can't work that frontier without getting into some danger now and then. The dire wolf finally...
...Clinton is painfully aware of the mischief the detainees could make if they had no hope at all. Riots by Cuban refugees held at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas helped cost him re-election as governor in 1980. "The decision was driven by the Pentagon saying, 'This costs us a million dollars a day, and it's going to be a disaster come summer,'" explained a senior White House official...