There is a lot of forced zaniness -- yelling and screaming, pushing and shoving, mugging and double-taking -- but the bright levity of farce is entirely missing.
"Everyone was screaming, pushing, punching, elbowing - terrified.
That wasn't the case at a Chuck E. Cheese in Miami on Saturday, when several sets of parents got into a mass brawl, complete with screaming, pushing, shoving and hair-pulling, according to witnesses.
She screamed, pushed him away and ran from the room.
Mostly, though, they were sure they would have been tougher: they would have kicked the abuser, screamed, pushed their way through the layers of fellow riders.
A thousand naked little bastards screaming, punching, pushing, kicking.
I was just screaming and pushing and hoping, and he got there".
The birds had no prospect of retreat from the barrage of screaming families pushing their youngest near enough for a cell-phone pic.
"If you have something, really, to say, that would be a great contribution, nobody can hear you when everybody's yelling and screaming and pushing and shoving," Mr. Bloomberg said.
PERHAPS it was a slow news night in New York, but there was a "Day of the Locust" feel -- screaming and pushing paparazzi, press and hangers-on -- outside Industria Superstudio in Manhattan Tuesday evening for the Lane Bryant runway show of intimate apparel.
