Word: feverishness
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...when the tale spins from the story of the scientist to that of the assistant director and his cast A febrile reiteration of the word "soul mate" in myriad forms ("sole mate") reminds us of the pitch of Byers' anecdotes and how seriously he takes himself. An intriguing and feverish last passage asks agitatedly, "Where is your soul? Is it here?" as if prodding a criminal into revealing his hidey-hole. It's almost as if the author were ascertaining the location of the soul in order to negotiate with it a treaty of interpersonal alliance--the frantic...
...film of Battlefield Earth, the sci-fi novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Travolta is a strong adherent of the controversial "belief system." His friends and relatives say it empowers him with almost fearless self-confidence. He believes it does even more. "I once got so feverish we had to stop production on Grease," remembers director Randal Kleiser. "John decided to cure me using Scientology, and put his finger over my body for an hour. The next day I made a full recovery. Of course, it could have also been that flu shot from the medic...
...players, however, have entered this week's practice unfazed by the frenzy of attention and are continuing to work out at a feverish pace, capping off practice with the usual sprint work...
...fanned Luce's idealistic passions. His journalistic judgment could be clouded at times by his own commitments. On the issues and people he cared most about--China, American foreign policy, the Republican Party, Chiang Kai-shek, Winston Churchill, Wendell Willkie--he personally directed coverage at critical times with a feverish and occasionally suffocating intensity. And on those subjects his magazines could be startlingly biased, even polemical. On most issues, however, Luce was relatively open-minded, deferential to his editors, receptive to many conflicting views, eager to attract the talents of gifted writers whatever their ideologies. His own politics were...
...Christie) is sad. A former horror-film star, she spends her days watching her old movies on cassette and brooding about her runaway daughter. Her husband Lucky (Nick Nolte) is...well, lucky--a handyman with plenty of randy women for clients. Marianne (Lara Flynn Boyle) is one of them, feverish with desire for the baby her financier husband Jeffrey (Jonny Lee Miller) is too preoccupied to provide...