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Vicarious degradation from the godfathers of mercenary humiliation is not "lighthearted havoc" [March 10]. The humble-pie manifesto reads clearly between the lines: 1) stamp out sanity, 2) uphold anarchy, 3) wreak pandemonium, and 4) escape reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 24, 1975 | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...French moved to new hilltop offices in the capital of Port Vila Oust Vila to the British), it was discovered that the Tricolor was flying higher than the Union Jack, and so the French had to trim their flagpole. Out of such contretemps, the condominium acquired the nickname of Pandemonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HEBRIDES: Whither Pandemonium? | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...appears that Pandemonium is due to enter a new phase of confusion. The British Foreign Office and the French Department of Overseas Territories have agreed on a new constitution that provides for elections for a representative assembly to be held some time next year. Most officials see it as the first step toward independence. As one British official put it, "We feel an obligation to ensure that the New Hebrides are brought into the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HEBRIDES: Whither Pandemonium? | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...Pandemonium broke out. As the assassin raced down the center aisle, spectators leaped from their seats and screamed. Security men rushed toward the stage. Park, displaying the cool aplomb of a professional soldier, ducked behind the bulletproof lectern while his bodyguards returned the fire. A 16-year-old high school girl in the audience was killed in the Shootout. Another bullet struck the gunman in the leg; he was wrestled to the floor and carried out of the hall. A third bullet hit Park's charming wife Yook Young Soo, who was seated on the dais directly behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: The Accidental Assassination | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

Describing the action for future cameramen, Collier creates prose that often matches and sometimes surpasses even Milton's great-ranging visual imagination. He sees the fall of the rebel angels at cosmic distance, as a golden snowfall that fills the firmament. After Pandemonium (the house of all demons) is created by magic, its central room becomes as black as night, or the inside of Satan's skull, and myriad rows of attendant devils wink like stars. Satan and his dark disciples fly toward the high gate of hell bound for the corruption of mankind. They look, Collier writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All About Eve | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

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