Word: pandemoniums
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...Service protection, rides in a rented van and brusquely turns down little gifts, even a necktie painted with a presidential seal that was proffered by an executive of a garment factory. He evokes an emotional, visceral reaction from many voters. At a Western Electric plant outside Baltimore, he created pandemonium: men pressed forward to shake his hand, women squealed and virtually swooned. For many women his appeal was frankly sexual. Gushed one: "He's got the greatest eyebrows I've ever seen." Comparisons with the Kennedy brothers are obvious yet only add to the enigma of the bachelor...
...succeeded in bedeviling the tolerant and administratively naive Miller, who never ran anything bigger than a 200-man local before taking over the 250,000-member U.M.W. Taking advantage of Miller's inexperience-and reluctance to use a gavel in meetings-his rivals turn board sessions into parliamentary pandemonium, quarreling, shouting and, during a recent budget debate, nearly coming to blows with Miller supporters. "The meetings are a goddam circus," says Miller...
...then there was a spontaneous scene of pandemonium and exhilaration...
...Pandemonium broke out in the managerial offices upstairs at Symphony since no one could find the soloist, who was scheduled to rehearse with the orchestra two hours earlier. When a Harvard official finally located him after remembering that Rostropovich had stayed at the Colonnade on his last trip to Boston, the cellist sat sulking and refused to go to the rehearsal. "He just wanted to play prima donna when he wasn't met at the airport. He specifically didn't go to Symphony, even though he could have been there 20 minutes before the rehearsal. He happens to be very...
...royal clan derives from the Barrymores, with echoes of the Drews. The grande dame who wields the scepter in this kingdom is Fanny Cavendish (Eva Le Gallienne), an ailing titaness of the footlights with the tongue of an asp and a heart of melting butter. But pandemonium is really the ruler of the realm...