Word: mischiefism
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...plot is simple and unenchanted. Three women in the small town of Eastwicks have shed their husbands and their traditional roles, and become witches. They use their powers to cause all sorts of mischief to townspeople they dislike: they have many male lovers, most of them married men. Along comes a wealth, sexy stranger. Darryl Van Horne. The witches all fall for him, he, after gratifying all three of them for a short while, marries a most unbe-witching girl named Jenny Gabriel. Shocked, the witches hex her (all the magic in the book is flatly effective), riddled with cancer...
...election. A pre-election summit might turn out to be politically risky, his advisers believe. Some voters would see it as a campaign gimmick, and conservatives might accuse him of groveling before the Soviets. Moreover, a face-to-face encounter would give the Soviets a chance to cause mischief. They could feign interest in a summit, then stay home because of some trumped-up U.S. offense, or walk out of the talks with words of derision for the President. Either way, Reagan would have trouble repairing the damage before November...
Each of us has particular interests in the College. Some, like my Palo Alto friend, want to know about comparative mischief. Others are interested in what happens in the classroom, in social life, or athletics, or the socio-economic or geographic profiles of the classroom, or students' intended occupations. My own interests, I must admit, are more in the present and the future than the past While I retain a great interest in the arts, which first emerged in college, new topics come along which I find equally rewarding. Athletics, for example, which I experienced minimally twenty-five years...
Both before and since Reagan came into office, the Soviet Union has exacerbated international tensions by occupying and bullying its neighbors, stepping up its mischief-making around the world and arming itself beyond a level needed for self-defense or deterrence. In the face of such Soviet behavior, "hardheaded détente," the notion that Richard Nixon has recently been promoting, would have been difficult to establish no matter who became President...
Some observers fear that youthful computer enthusiasts, discovering that their pranks are largely beyond the reach of existing laws, may be graduating from mischief to misfeasance. Ronald Austin, 20, a U.C.L.A. student who told the press last year that he had cracked a Defense Department computer network, was arraigned in Los Angeles last month. Caught with $1,600 worth of illegally ordered airline tickets stashed under a rug, he is being charged under California's new laws with twelve counts of maliciously accessing a computer and one count of concealing stolen goods. Maximum sentence: nearly eight years...