Word: feverish
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...Montand manages a brilliant satiric evocation of second-rate Astaire-the outflung white-gloved hands (without the gloves), the staccato rhythms tapped out on a walking stick like a hollow third leg, and the agitated centipede footwork interrupted with dazzling toothpasty smiles. The funniest number casts Montand as a feverish symphony conductor who snaps his baton, his Beethoven concert and his career in two to waltz off with a girl who cares only for waltzes. In sentimental Parisian songs, Montand runs the risk of sounding like a younger Chevalier, but winds through his own Paris as naturally as the Seine...
...Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's fear that any belt-tightening would hurt him politically, Yamagiwa, 60, has shown uncharacteristic indecision. Last week he finally hiked Japan's bank rate from 6.935% to 7.3%, the highest of any industrialized nation. Tighter money, Yamagiwa hopes, will discourage the more feverish expansion plans of Japan's industrialists...
During the feverish, all-night attempt to draft a final communiqué, Indonesia's Sukarno begged the conference to support his demand for West Irian; Morocco's King Hassan II urged his claim against Mauritania. Nehru's coalition vetoed mention of either. An Arab resolution condemning Israel was knocked out by Burma's U Nu, a good friend of Ben-Gurion...
...nurse in the third." Dalis has a theory that she can catch Kundry's tempestuous passions more effectively if she does not vocalize before going onstage, thus retaining a certain gutsy quality in her voice. Last week her theory worked just fine: the voice had a raw, fitfully feverish cast, but it never became ugly or strident. Tenor Thomas was less compelling, but he too turned in a good performance-far more vigorous than Bayreuth audiences can expect from more familiar, beef trust-styled Wagnerian tenors. At the curtain, Wieland Wagner paid his two stars a compliment that suggests...
Four days of feverish negotiation produced a compromise resolution calling on the Portuguese but not the Angolans to stop the slaughter, but threatening no sanctions against the Portuguese. It passed 9-0, Britain and France abstaining, while the U.S. voted aye with the Russians. Said one U.S. official: "It was our vote on the first Angola resolution that convinced these Afro-Asians that we meant what we preached about colonialism. We had to go along...