The line which kicks off the jolly fugue where, out of mayhem, Verdi creates harmony, seemed even more pertinent than usual.
Somehow, magical destiny evolves out of mayhem when Gaylord Pearlstein (Mr. Forman) plots with a cohort from Club Rub a Dub Dub, the seedy spa and nightspot next door, to rob his own jewelry store, collect the insurance money and eliminate his shrewish wife.
The resulting fish-out-of-water mayhem established the personalities of the two would-be stars.
Besson shrewdly manages to use the teetering uncertainty of the moment to toss the film into an even higher gear of out-of-control mayhem as hit men arrive to attack De Niro and Co.
Retracing the route of their movie cameras, they pointed out sites of mayhem in the film, sounding like the world's worst Realtors.
In The Secret Map of Hollywood (BBC1) Ross was at his understated best, teasing out stories of mayhem, murder and cut-out bras in a grubby 45 minutes that I'm delighted to see is the first of six.
It is true that this is not 2008, when the headlines reflected a sense of mayhem and out-of-control violence that led to 843 killings, a record high in this city of 1.6 million people across the border from San Diego.
Crucified Ronald McDonalds and the severed feet of God stand out from a mayhem of massacre.
Fans of the sport, which involves riding and racing across dunes in all manner of vehicles, including buggies, motorcycles and pickups, bemoan its growing reputation as an activity for out-of-control youths bent on mayhem.
Even when all 1,400 members of the multinational force arrive, which is expected to take weeks, it is unclear what, if anything, they will do to stop the kind of mayhem that broke out today.
Hundreds of police officers from all over the state were keeping fans in line, usingwhat appeared to be pepper spray and making arrests to try to avoid the kind of mayhem that broke out after the team's victory in the league championship series last week, when police, trying to subdue rowdy fans, fired a pepper-spray pellet that struck and killed a college student.
