Word: pandemonium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the Rashomon has very little space, one does well to make reservations in advance. In the pandemonium of the first weeks, the restaurant had a tendency to accept all reservations, and this led to many people being turned away at the door who had been assured of tables. Apparently, the proprietors have now realized that this is not the way to run a restaurant...
Over free food and wine, the aristocracy matched wits and wagers, betting on everything from the Derby to the seduction of a duchess. Crocky's, as it was called, was also known affectionately as The New Pandemonium and. less fondly, as the Fishmonger's, after the original profession of its founder. William Crockford, who made a fortune of some $6,000,000-or what one historian described as "the whole of the ready money of the then existing generation." The club was closed by the 1845 law prohibiting chemmy and almost all other forms of card playing...
...eight French croupiers and French-made plastic chips representing $1,500,000 (highest chip: $2,800) for four chemmy and eight poker tables. In return for a cut of the take. Businessman Holland persuaded foxy old Isidor Abbecassis. Le Touquet's casino czar, to preside over his remodeled Pandemonium. Since by English law the house has no legal redress when a gambler's check bounces, Abbecassis was hired mainly for his intimate knowledge of Britain's better-heeled bettors. "These Frenchies." says Holland, "have card-indexed steel filing cabinets in their heads." "These English." says...
...plenty of shooting, especially when the U.N. planes swooped down on the city from their Kamina base, 260 miles away. In a quiet, bungalow-lined side street, where some of the remaining white housewives strolled with their children, the whoosh of a low-flying U.N. jet brought sudden pandemonium as Katanga soldiers and hastily armed civilians jumped from their cars or stepped off the sidewalk to fire excitedly with pistols, tommy guns and rifles...
...turning into anything more, without, in fact, ever being heard of again. If the only point is that people will become absolutely anything, so long as it runs in herds, Rhinoceros is far too long in making its point. Actually the play is much better farce than satire. The pandemonium of the first rhinoceros scares, the hurly-burly of the mounting rhinoceros fever, the sight of Actor Zero Mostel virtually turning into a rhinoceros right onstage, are all good knockabout fun. And the dialogue throws darts into a variety of human rationalizations and cliches...