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...across the Pound Hall stage. This year it's Professor David Westall, as a dope-dealing buffoon in Bermuda shorts and sombrero and Dean of Students May Upton, who plays herself and saves Camp So-Sue-Me from villainy. They're both as stiff as boards but incite near pandemonium merely by showing that they too can behave foolishly in public...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Jurisimprudence | 3/4/1982 | See Source »

Travis Bickle cruises this Pandemonium like an animal trying to unwind. He is an underground man for America, condemned to try to live a quiet life in enemy territory. But things won't leave him alone. Ther's no relief from the loneliness and frustration; The city never lets him off the hook. The world is a no-parking zone. All that remains is relentless movement, ugly rooms, ugly people, and dirty minds. No compassion. No grace. It just keeps coming. There's no pressure drop, no possible release. Spoken language is foreign to Bickle, and when he gets...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: DeNiro | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...York, the biggest stock exchange of them all, was the last to open. As soon as the 10 a.m. trading bell rang on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the selling pandemonium continued. The Dow Jones industrial index slumped 14 points in the first 30 minutes, and the morning edition of the New York Post proclaimed, WORLD STOCK MARKET PANIC. Said Gary Ross, research director for the Wood Gundy brokerage firm: "Our retail customers were phoning in panic-stricken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whiff off Panic | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...gave to Callinan. I passed to Jim Acheson. The clock wound down. The Black man cheered. The Cornell students wanted us to hurry up. I smiled as Cuccia snook over from the three. Harvard won, 26-20; pandemonium at Games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give Them No Quarter | 10/10/1981 | See Source »

Back in St. Peter's Square, pandemonium reigned. As the Pope collapsed, two women who had been standing near his car also fell, hit by bullets intended for John Paul. They were rushed to Holy Spirit Hospital. Both were Americans. Rose Hall, 21, originally from Shirley, Mass., and now married to a Protestant missionary posted in Würzburg, West Germany, had her left arm broken by a slug. Ann Odre, 58, a widow from Buffalo and a devout Catholic who had just realized her longtime dream of seeing the Pope, was hit by a bullet that lodged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hand of Terrorism | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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