Word: pandemoniums
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...clang of cymbals and drums, China plunged into a pandemonium of celebrations. From humid, semitropical Yunnan to frigid Heilungkiang, millions of Chinese paraded through cities and towns, waving the little red books of Mao Tse-tung's quotations and chanting "Long life to Chairman Mao!" Many carried sunflowers as symbols of loyalty to a man whom his followers revere as "the red sun in our hearts." The occasion was, according to its official title, "The Ninth National Congress of the great, glorious and correct Communist Party of China...
...Harvard polo players of the past practiced in the Old Boston armory, but an anti-polo faction favored trucks over ponies and paved it. Most of the club members were new to the game, so early practices this winter in the cramped and dust filled hall in Andover were pandemonium...
...former Chanel Model Betty Catroux, a tall, lithe specter of a woman, arrived in a black satin, sequined jump suit, open to below the rib cage. And when Yves himself shyly walked in, sporting an outsize tie, paisley shirt and multiple chains worn hip-hugger style, the scene was pandemonium...
Locking Up Danny. Early in the conference, Paris Student Leader Danny ("the Red") Cohn-Bendit, an unofficial observer, created pandemonium when he berated the representatives as an "assembly of old soldiers" who had no stomach for real revolution. Scuffles broke out on the floor, and Danny was hustled out and locked up in a backstage room for half an hour until a semblance of order could be restored. He returned just in time to hear Mexican Delegate Domingo Rojas blame Soviet influence and Fidel Castro for the sad lot of Cuban anarchists languishing in exile in Miami. "Viva Castro!" shouted...
Back home, meanwhile, the parents of the missing children also go off the deep end. Pandemonium breaks out and the film suddenly turns into a satiric moppet's-eye view of adult life. A multilingual U.N.-cooperative group meets to solve the crisis-and babbles into Babel. A Committee to Encourage Optimism is formed, complete with clowns, dwarfs and dancing girls whooping it up convention style. Finally, the children come back for a brief visit and turn away from it all in lofty disdain, leaving their parents to founder in the generation gap forever...