Word: feverishness
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...than a subdued murkiness that kills most of the excitement of Lithgow's wonderfully staged crowd scenes. The music is strange, not, I suspect, completely because it was composed that way. The pace of many big scenes (all of those in the inn, for example) is nowhere near the feverish tempo that should drive Woyzeck to final destruction. And the timing of small bits is often fuzzy, so that Woyzeck's knifing of Marie, for instance, is only feebly chilling...
...left. Unemployment shrank a tenth of a point in September to 3.8% of the labor force, thus aggravating the labor shortage. Sales of new 1967 model autos began so briskly that General Motors and Ford tacked on heavy Saturday overtime to lift production. The total economy, which cooled its feverish expansion during the second quarter, heated up again in the third quarter; gross national product rose by $13.6 billion, and corporate profits reached new highs (see box, following page). The Labor Department reported that consumer prices jumped by a substantial 0.3% in September, now stand 3½% above their level...
Since nearly every line of dialogue strikes a familiar blue note, the only way to justify still another fictional show-biz biography is to link it to the color question. Adam is a specialty act salted with social protest. It is played at a feverish pitch by Sammy Davis Jr., who has surrounded himself with such Negro performers as Ossie Davis, Louis Armstrong and, as the girl in his cheering section, a sunburst of shy sepia charm named Cicely Tyson. A handful of jazzmen (Mel Torme, Kai Winding, Nat Adderly) make the score swing but aren't much help...
...Fiftysix years' anticipation, burning jealousy and feverish curiosity," groused the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, deserved more than "this peep show," this "cocktail cracker thrown to a hungry lion...
Girl-Getters would be a better movie if Scenarist Peter Draper had put fewer words into his characters' mouths. Occasionally, they seem to be speaking less for themselves than for a troubled generation in toto. But Director Michael Winner masks the deficiency, coolly catching the feverish, gotta-keep-busy restlessness of youth on the go. Wherever the action is, from ballroom to boardwalk to a beachside spree in which a bride-and-groom are burned in effigy. Winner gives a commanding end-of-summer air to every moment...