Word: mischiefism
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...streets hangin' out an' gettin' high," says Baby Love. He is a very skinny, very small, very lethal 14-year-old. His eyes are slate gray, flashing to blue when he laughs. Mischief is etched across his face as a bittersweet smile. Like his crew, he is dressed in mugger's uniform: designer jeans, T shirt and $45 Pumas, the starched laces neatly untied. A wolf in expensive sneakers, Baby Love is a school dropout, one of more than 800,000 between the ages...
...will need it all and a good deal more. Comes now the time when the old hoofer's original script has been exhausted, when the newness has faded, when the mischief makers in Washington and the world have sized him up. The procession of events and the demands of his nation have marched beyond anything he had thought about and planned for when he was a lecturing TV celeb and a candidate who could sum the world up with "Let's reduce taxes, strengthen our defense and get the Government out of your hair." Comes now the time...
...example from Homer, was a wife-neglecting troublemaker if there ever was one. Even in the inspired stories of the Bible, people seldom behave very well, beginning with Adam and Eve and proceeding to Cain and Abel and the folk in Sodom and Gomorrah. Contemporary fictions create their own mischief: Portnoy, for example, spends precious little time collecting for the United Fund...
...nearly equal in population as possible. (An average district should now contain 519,532 people, up from 465,468 in 1970.) Thus the ease with which a state legislature can gerrymander* districts into odd shapes to preserve partisan majorities has diminished greatly. Yet there is still much room for mischief, and both the Democratic and Republican national committees are trying to make sure things go their way. Armed with a $1 million budget, the Republicans are hiring teams of lawyers and computer experts to advise local G.O.P. groups on how to cut the map to the party's advantage...
...which only involves the two giants who started it all, who now bestride a world whose lusts for power they both have teased and prodded for three long decades. The Soviet Union has been more cautious than the U.S. in handing out nuclear equipment, but has caused plenty of mischief by whipping up those who seek that equipment. Both the Soviets and Americans have continued to sell arms promiscuously; not one week after Iraq, the U.S. decided to bestow $2 billion worth of arms on Pakistan, from which the U.S. cut off supplies in 1979 because of its nuclear stirrings...