Word: riotousness
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More than that, the campus is a riotous assemblage of types as various as the Deadly Sins. There are students who keep cigarettes in refrigerators and an inventor who, after a "brain attack," only moos. Secretaries sell Amway products by telephone, and computer nerds get million-dollar grants to work on "calf-free lactation." One whole chapter is given over to the inner thoughts and agonies of Earl Butz, a "very fastidious hog" who is described quite as sympathetically as the two-legged creatures around him: "At bottom, he was still the hog he had always been...
Kesslee catches Rebecca and puts her in a dreadful prison hoping to convince the riotous grrrl to swallow her morals and fight on his side of evil. Instead, the venomous feminist spits in the face of bad men everywhere, and escapes in a pilfered tank which she grows to love with the passion David Hasselhoff had for his car, Kitt...
...leaves one aching for all that it could have been. Forced jokes about pregnancy and little speeches about women's lib are nothing more than tokens if they are spoken by the same cliched female characters we have become accustomed to. In spite of Jones' solid performance and the riotous supporting cast, director Kwatinetz fails to overcome the limitations ill-thought conception...
Just two weeks after his spectacular transformation from obscure buffoon to Russia's most notorious politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky decided to take a little vacation. His idea of a good time: a riotous road trip through Central Europe, hobnobbing with a German right-wing firebrand, skiing in the company of an Austrian Waffen-SS veteran and, in virtually every place on his itinerary, behaving in ways that tend to get ordinary people thrown out of bars. But in Zhirinovsky's case, he was given the bum's rush from entire countries. Back in Russia at week's end, the nationalist demagogue...
Then, I thought of the pressure. Millions of people watching at home, the riotous fans in the stadium: It all added up to amazing pressure...