Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have been nice if Scully's directorial work had been as restrained. Unfortunately, at rare but important intervals, the spirited acting was prone to becoming a little too feverish and overworked. Furthermore, the characters who had nothing to say in a given scene might have had something more meaningful to do than twiddle their thumbs and stare off into space...
There was also no mistaking the feverish, often mordant speculation about what Brown would do to shake up the New Yorker. When Brown announced her departure to a devoted Vanity Fair staff, she dissolved in tears; but as she prepared to travel the three blocks to the New Yorker offices to meet her new editing cadre, she fretted privately, "They're going to hate me." She did what she could to reassure them, pledging that "the New Yorker will not be Vanity Fair...
...first of these images involves countless voices from every conceivable corner of the auditorium chanting "Daughter, Daughter." The chant builds up to a feverish crescendo ending upon the entrance of Indra, the God of Heaven (Jonathan Weinberg). "How did you get here?", he asks, to which his innocent daughter replies, "I was carried on a cloud, but it seems to be falling." The "here" that Indra refers to is Earth, the "dark and heaviest world" whose "discontented, thankless" inhabitants speak a language Indra calls "complaint." Indra's daughter does not agree with her father's condemnation of the human race...
...feverish partisan atmosphere of an election year almost guarantees that neither Bush's prescription nor any other competing scheme will be enacted before November. At least 30 different health-care bills are under consideration on Capitol Hill, and every presidential candidate has brandished his own proposal. Most of the ideas fall into three broad categories...
...feverish bid to expand, U.S. cruise lines are adding 13 new ships and more than 11,000 berths this year. James Godsman, president of the Cruise Lines International Association, predicts that by 1995 the number of berths will rise to 120,000, from the current 89,000. Companies such as Carnival and Royal Caribbean are driving the weak out of the business. Half a dozen lines sank in the past five years because of insufficient capital or poor marketing. Even successful lines had to discount heavily last year to fill ships. Lines with older ships, like Norwegian Cruise Line...