Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...severed leg of a sheep, with metal pipes he must have ripped out of the walls of stadium lavoratories, and with fruit canning equipment; at one match, angered by the disparaging remarks of fans who questioned his sportsmanship, he decided to inflict terror on his audience by perpetrating random violence, and deliberately crippled a sixty-four year-old veteran in a four-dollar seat. This man knows no mercy--he can't even speak English...
...surface, wrestling seems tawdry and cheap: a couple of overweight men (or women, or midgets) pretending to hurt each other, the crowd taking pleasure in their pain. But professional wrestling appeals to much more than the crowd's delight in random violence, since it shows not mere brutality but a struggle between the forces of good and evil. The program for the match makes it easy to tell one from the other--all the bad guys are listed in the left-hand column. But the crowd already knows most of the wrestlers from television interviews--Bruno, of course, is earnest...
Both the right and the left seem to be embracing random terror and Mafia-style vendetta. Recently, the mother, father and sister of a youth named Federico Guillermo Baez were abducted from their home in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata, then later found dead. Their hands were cut off to delay identification. The next day the police announced that young Baez was the leader of a guerrilla squad that had killed an army colonel. The clear implication: right-wing forces had decided to avenge the officer's death by wiping out Baez's family...
...random sample of 20 Tufts undergraduates agreed with Susan T. Murray, Tufts '76, who said, "I'm very pleased and happy, because from what I've heard, he seems to be a fantastic person and a really neat...
Charles W. Nordin, a fourth-year student at the Medical School, said yesterday that the faculty's "attempt to prevent random wanderings through the curriculum" is an "attempt to implement the traditional notion of education...