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...when they made an early stop at the Newark bus terminal, their doubts vanished. Beyond the pandemonium in the terminal, a thick cloud of smoke and dust obscured the view of the New York City skyline...
...normally get along like Frosty the Snowman and a tanning bed, are united in their opposition, pointing out that all a tax-free weekend will accomplish is a consolidation of November and December retail activity into one weekend. Dartboard envisions overcrowded stores, fistfights over parking spots and widespread pandemonium. Not to mention the empty malls on the weekend after the tax-free extravaganza...
...lead singer dances and sings spasmodically; it could be any cutting edge, industry-created rock band. But as the video ends, roadies or studio workers (?) come and snatch the instruments away from these young rockers, unplug the amplifiers and monitors, and attempt to carry the lead singer off, causing pandemonium on the stage. And the coup is: This handsome rock group is not New Order. Because the irony of the video is undetectable to a younger market unaware of New Order’s heyday two deacdes before, the band have maintained their signature question mark and enigma. In addition...
First impressions, it's true, are unlikely to be promising. The capital Dhaka is pure pandemonium, the sweating, heaving epicenter of the most crowded nation on earth. (With 129 million inhabitants packed into an area the size of Iowa, Bangladesh is three times more densely populated than neighboring India and seven times more jammed than China.) Don't be surprised if an enthusiastic Bangladeshi befriends you in the street and invites you home for tea and a meal. He will invariably ask for your address as a start to what he hopes will be an overseas friendship and, eventually...
...resulting pandemonium set in last fall, after 300 new flights a day were added (but before an additional 300 were up and running). Delays tripled at LaGuardia, affecting more than a quarter of all flights. Air carriers were sending squadrons of smaller (under 100 seats) and typically slower planes into the airport, holding back operations at a facility that demands movements in much less than a New York minute...