Word: mischiefism
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Jacqueline Onassis never in any way compared herself with any of her successors in the White House, though she did once refer to one of them -- in sympathy, not in mischief -- as "a frightened little bunny who calls me almost every day." She was a willing but never gullible supporter of many a good cause. There was nothing she wouldn't do to move them along. (She drew the line at charity balls, though...
Dennis J. Frailey, adjunct professor ofcomputer science and engineering at SouthernMethodist University, says he used computers toengage in all sorts of mischief during hisundergraduate years...
...lines. ("In thole world, all I really care about is you.") And Heather Locklear, whose addition to the cast last year as bitchy Amanda is credited with turning the show around, doesn't have the evildoing pizazz of a Joan Collins or Larry Hagman. In a typical act of mischief, she pleads with Billy not to tell his fiance Alison about an affair he and Amanda have had. Then she tells Alison herself and acts shocked that Billy never mentioned the matter. What's next? Short-sheeting their...
...servant girl in a middle-class home. Here the mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. The father luxuriates in a torpid guilt. Upstairs Grandma intones prayers for the family dead. Downstairs the couple's three boys make mischief. The youngest taunts Mui with merciless glee; he is just about the only sign of wayward life in this house-and-garden mausoleum...
...future dead white male, Updike makes mischief with a changing world that unsettles his sensibilities and excites his imagination. In a spasm of Latin American magic realism, he turns Isabel into a black lesbian and Tristao into a white businessman. A tirelessly inventive tour de force, this off-color romance may not add much to Updike's stature as a man of letters, but it is a spectacular example of what happens when a writer with talent to burn burns...