Word: feverishness
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...Messaggero editorialized that "once poor Christians were thrown to the lions in the Colosseum. Now other poor Christians go there who have no other way to make themselves heard." Eventually, a city hall official climbed up to give Dante a letter promising him the license he wanted; feverish and weary, Dante climbed down from his aerie. Rome's embarrassed city council issued a statement that future requests for municipal favors "must always follow the stipulated administrative norms," but that may be easier said than enforced. Two days later, four unemployed Italians climbed up the Colosseum's jagged walls...
...human. So we gave him gloves. Five fingers looked like too much on such a little creature, so we took one away. That was just one less finger to animate...There was no mouse hair or any other frills that would slow down animation." Disney never worked in a feverish creative state never even drew his own characters. He functioned much as a theatrical producer, assembling talent, picking a vehicle, laying down certain moral principles, and acting as the figurehead for the public. Above all, Disney was interested in the concept, but he himself had relatively little ability to achieve...
Polanski takes occasional excursions into outright fantasy, as when Macbeth has a feverish dream following his second meeting with the witches. But the scene is visually uninspired and mechanically clumsy. Faces and images swirl up out of the hags' cauldron, spin about, dissolve, disappear, as if in some hybrid of hallucinogenic nightmare and the kind of antique special effects that looked awkward over 25 years ago in Hitchcock's Spellbound...
...Canada, opposition swelled to a feverish anti-American pitch. Canadian newspapers were filled with articles and cartoons denouncing the Amchitka blast. A bitter parliamentary debate caused the State Department and White House to assure the Canadians that their objections had been considered. Demonstrators closed major bridges connecting Canada and Michigan for several hours. U.S. consulates were stoned. Five American-owned companies closed down operations following threats of terrorist bombings of U.S. firms...
...Dice Man is a blackly comic amusement park of a book, replete with vertiginous roller coaster rides of the spirit, feverish omnisexual trips through the tunnel of love, and crazy images reflected in the distorting fun-house mirrors of the mind. The master and slave of this berserk carnival is a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart, after the pseudonymous author, whose real name is George Cockcroft. Cockcroft took the hero's name as his pen name "because the book is in part autobiographical and I wanted to force the reader to take the book more seriously than he would a novel...