Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third act: as in a horror movie, the normality of Antonia's surroundings only heightens the terror prescribed by Dr. Miracle. The epilogue finds Hoffmann back in the tavern where he began the evening-drunken, disheveled and disabused of idealistic notions, but inspired to write his feverish tales. For all its legerdemain, the staging provides an unsentimental, clear-eyed view of the only serious opera by the man whom Rossini called the "Mozart of the Champs Elys...
...problem," meanwhile, was working at his usual feverish pace last week. Badly shaken and somewhat moody in the days following his "woodshed" session with Reagan two weeks ago, Stockman is now committed to salvaging his credibility-and his job. Ignoring the advice of aides, he is embarking this week on a four-day swing through the Midwest and West to speak at fund raisers for G.O.P. Congressmen. "If the President has suffered from Dave's indiscretions, and Dave thinks he has, then he's determined to make it up to him, one Congressman at a time," said...
...tragedy with universal implications. Katerina is the sexually frustrated wife of a rich provincial merchant, Zinovy, and the object of the thinly disguised passion of Boris, her lecherous father-in-law. Into her life comes Sergei, a handsome young worker. The pair become lovers, but Boris catches them in feverish embrace and publicly whips Sergei. Katerina coldly poisons Boris in revenge, and then she and Sergei compound the crime by strangling Zinovy. When the village drunk later stumbles across Zinovy's body, he alerts the police at the moment when Katerina and Sergei are celebrating their wedding. Under arrest...
...this fall Procrastination and I broke up. In my new dormitory room. I found another fantasy fulfilling girlfriend. Organization cut a sleek figure in a three-piece suit and neatly applied makeup. Before we had even spoken to each other, she had me moving with feverish speed. Lists, lists, lists-I had to make lists: lists of room-filling objects to buy, of esoteric classes to see; lists of letters to write and applications to prepare. I gave her every list I had, but Organization still wasn't satisfied...
Alejandra seems fated to go mad and to kill Fernando, the father whom she has tried to repudiate. With its hints of incest and its portrait of a doomed family hagridden by history, Alejandra's tale is South American gothic at its most feverish...