Word: pranksterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troop leader who happens to be a nurse, has tended sore feet and wounded egos all week. Assistant scoutmaster Don Browning, 51, hobbled by a sprained knee, finds that the scouts around him walk as slowly as he does. Crew leader Jason Servatius, 16, once an aggressive prankster, moves among the hikers, offering advice and checking equipment. It is raining again; nobody minds...
...factual bombing of Move headquarters by Philadelphia police in 1985. Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee -- South Africa, with cancer as a metaphor for apartheid. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike -- Harry Angstrom hops offstage, perhaps to meet his maker. The Further Inquiry by Ken Kesey -- The head Prankster rerolls the legendary cross-country bus trip. Tender by Mark Childress -- For the character Leroy Kirby, read Elvis Presley. Orrie's Story by Thomas Berger -- The author of Little Big Man retells the Greek Oresteia as a small-town tragedy...