Word: pandemonium
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Ticket sales there have reflected students’ enthusiasm about Snoop Dogg’s upcoming appearance. “We’ve sold literally two-thirds of the show within the first 2 to 3 days,” Archibald said. “It was like pandemonium on the first...
...began to laugh--"for the first week, she gets a little daft from the chemo ... Whenever I call them [her parents], it rings. It rings. It rings. The phone picks up. 'Wait a minute. I have to take my hearing aid out.' 'Find the phone that works.' It's pandemonium calling old people!" Coulter often speaks with great affection for her parents, and she said this with a light, you-know-how-it-is tone. But there's no mistaking: this is a person who will say anything, even when the camera...
...felt most acutely after the prison came under shelling by insurgents. A doctor who served there recalled an attack last April when a mortar landed on an outdoor pen holding prisoners, killing at least 16 outright and wounding more than 60. Former prison personnel described how those attacks produced pandemonium, with panicked prisoners seeking treatment from what were at times very few, poorly equipped medical workers. "When somebody died, we just took out their chest tube and inserted it into another, living person," said National Guard Captain Kelly Parrson, a physician's assistant at Abu Ghraib in late...
Ruth Evenson, the manager of Pandemonium Books in Harvard Square, credits the marketing industry and a “media driven” world for the rise in the genre’s popularity. Though she said the reading population was dropping, science fiction has expanded with ease into other mediums. Computer and video games, graphic novels and manga have repackaged many of science fiction’s themes for a younger, modern audience...
...dude.” Assuming for the sake of argument that Charlotte is believable, open contempt of her foibles defeats the very purpose of her creation. If Wolfe is siding with the reader in critiquing Charlotte, he shouldn’t present her as the objective witness to college pandemonium at the novel’s outset. In this case, Wolfe is acting as both creator and judge, which not only breaks up the narrative drive, but also results in heavy-handed moralizing and poor portrayal...