Word: mischiefism
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...mythologies of many Native American tribes feature a character known to anthropologists as the trickster. He is both good and bad; a creator but also a mischief maker. Above all, he is duplicitous: joyously, energetically deceptive. Among the Tlingit people of western Alaska, the trickster figure is known as the Raven. At the moment, however, someone bearing a striking resemblance to him is roaming the Ketchikan area under another name...
Does this make sense anymore? Except for flooding Florida with boat people, Cuba poses no threat to U.S. national security. It no longer has a nuclear- armed patron in Moscow buying anti-Yanqui mischief with $6 in billion annual aid. The whole world has passed by Fidel's moth-eaten socialism...
...flashy tribute to those movies and mores, Showtime is rolling out 10 teen features set in the '50s but with '90s attitude splattered all over, like the rotten eggs that used to decorate Dad's DeSoto on mischief night. The series, called Rebel Highway, is premiering a movie a week each Friday through Sept. 16. Taken together, this seamy decalogue shows the '50s as a neat place to visit -- a lovers' lane accessible from a killer drag strip -- but hell to live through. Each movie revives the battles between tough guys and sweet chicks; each recalls hot sex before...
...Riding Hood, which was also the source for Jessica Rabbit in the 1988 hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit, is vintage Avery -- a hilariously precise essay on the elemental impulses of desire, hunger, revenge and infantile mischief-making. It offers a smart introduction to a popular artist who used warp-speed motion to plumb dark emotions and who created some of film's most anarchic, surreal, fall-down-funny visions...
...evidence of postal mischief follows a major scandal uncovered last spring in Chicago, which had been plagued by sloppy service and late deliveries. Confirming the public's worst suspicions, police found a foot-high pile of month-old mail under a porch, and fire fighters came upon 2,300 lbs. of old mail in a letter carrier's home...