Word: feverishness
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...epilogue of Up Close, McCartney dangles the possibility of a reunion with the two other surviving Beatles, a prospect that has already generated feverish media anticipation. "If we get together for one piece of music," Paul predicts, "we're bound to say, 'C'mon, let's do another little thing.' " The Fab Three could even dust off their old Sgt. Pepper uniforms and hit the road, showing that their esprit de corps is as timeless as the Beatles' ( music. Then again, it might be wiser to respect the immutability of the past and simply...
Shea has a stronger voice and a more compelling stage presence. When he is not cowering in Byron's shadow, he delivers his monologues with feverish intensity. He is especially impressive in his final monologue, in which he recites a chaos of fragments from his poems, counting out the meter on his fingers...
...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...