Word: mischiefism
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Some people, inevitably, will wonder what the Booker judges could possibly have been thinking. For Paddy Clarke, while intermittently funny, fresh and affecting, is ultimately frustrating. Its hero serves as its narrator, a 10- year-old boy trying, with his gang of schoolmates and other pals, to wreak mischief in their Dublin neighborhood, circa the mid-1960s. Graffiti, whether spray-painted or gouged in wet cement, constitute a major offensive strategy. Another is invading forbidden turf, such as walled-off backyards, where the prospect of a pair of ladies' knickers on a clothesline drives the lads into a frenzy...
...improbable. Most of the fun comes from seeing people fooled by what seems to us, who are in on the joke, a completely penetrable ruse. Curiously enough, what's really unpersuasive about Mrs. Doubtfire -- not to say draggy -- is its nondrag sequences. The children are goody-goodies, without mischief or quirks, and their father's relationship with them is unclouded by even minor impatience, let alone major outrage. The script, by Randi Mayem Singer and Leslie Dixon, presents ideal fatherhood as a form of saintliness...
They also planned to send a detail of officers to the Yale Bowl last night "so no criminal mischief will occur," he said...
...true creative center has moved out to the West Coast where groups like the Pharcyde and Freestyle Fellowship in Los Angeles and Del the Funkee Homosapien and Souls of Mischief in Oakland are exploring new ground. The more established New York groups have grown complacent, and that could be hip-hop's death knell...
...anybody access to playing a role in Somalia's political future," the President said last Friday. That's exactly wrong, says Henry Kissinger, who argues that failing to strike back at the forces that struck Americans virtually guarantees that the wrong lesson will be learned. The world's other mischief-makers will have no fear, says Kissinger, until the U.S. reduces Aidid's "power base so that it's apparent that when you tackle the U.S. in the brutal way in which it has been done, there is a penalty...