Word: feverishness
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...Blanche Dubois, played stupendously by Vivien Leigh, and Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead of a doting housewife and her lonely sister, we see full-bodied emotional an sexual characters. We understand the intensity of the battle over stella that happens between Blanche and Stella's husband, Stanley (played with a feverish pitch by Marlon Brando) because we are allowed to see the sexual attachment between Stella and Stanley...
...should the rest of us, who have focused feverish attention on this story even when it required a passing knowledge of the bylaws of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have to suffer? A country lives by its myths, and seldom has there been such an opportunity for an epic to be played out in an international arena as this skate-off between Harding and Kerrigan at the Winter Games. Lately, the public has been denied closure in other morality tales: neither Bobbitt will serve time; California may never be able to cobble together a jury sufficiently unaffected by victim empathy...
...event reached a feverish pitch when the Big Masher broke the local record. As the machine began to pull I unconsciously rose to my feet. When it lurched forward pulling the weight, I lost it altogether...
More than 2,200 high school students are in Cambridge this weekend for the 40th annual Harvard Model United Nations simulation--a four-day event that represents the culmination of a semester of class research or extracurricular work for delegates and nine months of feverish preparation for 130 Harvard organizers...
Fervent, foreboding music and feverish operatic voices accompany the progress of a black gondola, adorned with the head of dragon. It weaves though a dark network of water-bound caves, and soon we behold a dungeon--thousands of hands reaching out from behind iron gridding--and a hulk-sized executioner with a burnt head a la Freddy Kruger...