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And so the violist gazes outward from the stage, and the audience, mulling over the biographical background with its air of '60s mayhem and long-lost Soviet dissident hipness, is bound to wonder: Is this a Promethean figure, Hendrix-like, standing before us?
My hope, therefore, is that once policy makers begin to realise what's coming they will factor in this eventual windfall and allocate sufficient short-term resources to make the period of limited availability of rejuvenation therapies brief enough to prevent mayhem.
"Families deserve refuge from a culture of violence and mayhem."
If every new refinement since then in the quiet sapping of our national morale has earned a numerical "column," then by now, I estimate, we must be up somewhere close to "78 th column" (applied, maybe, to producers of the weekly network TV movies about bloody domestic mayhem) and "79 th column" (airplane passengers who bring carry-on luggage that they know won't fit into the overhead storage bins) or possibly even higher.
Tyler's subsequent idea of confining his group's mayhem to franchise coffee bars and corporate-subsidized art is a witty one--it's like a parody of neo-Nazism as re-enacted by yuppies.