Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strikes, like rashes, come and go, but there is a malaise in the TV industry that lingers on: the feverish pursuit of profits at the expense of public service. In a new book, Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control* former CBS News President Fred Friendly takes the TV pulse and finds it weak indeed...
...result is a stinging book that not only documents Kiev murders but also describes in detail the microcosm of a boy's world dissolving into unspeakable and incomprehensible patterns of horror. Each day was a constant obsession with the search for a crust of bread, the feverish reading of newspapers and posted orders for fresh fiats, since a nuance missed meant death...
...materialized out of a five-minute affair on a haystack. Her father is dead. Her mother, more feverish at lovemaking than at housekeeping, traipses around with an alcoholic salesman. So Jo takes a lover. Unfortunately she chooses a sailor. She winds up without a husband, with child...
...title refers to the roll of drums by which the inhabitants of a city under siege announce surrender; since it also denotes a feverish heartbeat, it is a handy metaphor for a romantic novel. The heart that beats retreat belongs to lovely, lazy Lucile, who at 30 has been drifting gracefully through an affair with a wealthy, fiftyish fellow named Charles. She meets Antoine, a young, intense and impecunious publisher's reader, who supplements his income by living with Clare, a middle-aged Parisian hostess...
...than a subdued murkiness that kills most of the excitement of Lithgow's wonderfully staged crowd scenes. The music is strange, not, I suspect, completely because it was composed that way. The pace of many big scenes (all of those in the inn, for example) is nowhere near the feverish tempo that should drive Woyzeck to final destruction. And the timing of small bits is often fuzzy, so that Woyzeck's knifing of Marie, for instance, is only feebly chilling...