Word: pandemonium
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...gasped. But it was only the emcee. After offering a few words, he unfurled one of the Bobby Sherman posters on sale in the lobby. For the first time that evening, the crowd screamed hysterically. Flash bulbs popped. He promised that after a brief intermission, Bobby would be theirs. Pandemonium...
Latin America has many dictators and detractors, but they do not raise the passions that its heroes do. Last week, as Brazil almost dissolved into pandemonium, the cause was not politics but soccer. When its team had defeated Italy 4-1 to win the World Cup in Mexico City, the country erupted in what Jornal do Brasil bannered as THE BIGGEST CARNAVAL IN HISTORY...
...characterized by speed and accuracy, and his books (A President is Many Men, 1948, A President's Odyssey, 1961, The Good New Days, 1962) were filled with anecdote and insight. Smith's highest honor, a 1964 Pulitzer Prize, was won for his swift, lucid reporting in the pandemonium-filled minutes following the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
...doubts, however, that Expo will open on schedule. Pandemonium also prevailed before the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, practically up to the hour that the flame was rekindled. Then, in a final frenetic burst of activity that the Japanese refer to as a kamikaze construction charge, the workers finished everything down to the last doorknob. The same is expected at Expo...
Alto Saxophonist McLean and his sextet spend much of this album on the wayout side of traditional harmonic borders, yet their energetic improvisation never quite descends to pandemonium. The group's most piercingly effective exchanges between alto, trumpet, trombone and the rhythm sections take place on Conversation Point and Erdu. On a track called Soul, they lay down a blues background for Poetess Barbara Simmons as she recites her tribute to blackness...