Word: feverishness
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...Moment of Truth, made in Spain with an Italian-language sound track, charts the rise and fall of a great bullfighter in terms of bitter economic necessity. The hero is played by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo, 26, known to aficionados as Miguelin, who gives the role a surly, feverish immediacy that sometimes lacks subtlety but never lacks sting. The quasi-fictional Miguelin has no dream of glory at the outset. A spunky, mop-topped Andalusian peasant, he flees the arduous life on his father's farm, drifts into that gypsy band of hot-eyed hopefuls who haunt every Spanish...
Love Life Joyfully. For Chagall, to sniff the humid scent of fruit, hear the cicadas crackling in the bushes, and feel the feverish sun is a necessary daily act of spiritual rebirth. Not that he attempts to imitate nature; rather, he aims to continue it into the realm of the mind. "In the abstract," he says, "one imitates but does not continue nature. Great art picks up where nature ends." And for him, there is neither world enough nor time to transmute all that he sees, breathes and dreams. "I have no vacations, just as the earth has no vacations...
...eight gold commemorative coins had been struck; a Cologne record company brought out The Queen Elizabeth Foxtrot. In Bonn, 15,000 champagne glasses were ordered, and mobile lavatories were trundled in from Cologne for a state reception for 2,500 at Augustusburg Castle. It was all part of the feverish preparations for the eleven-day, 1,200-mile tour by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of ten West German cities, the first state visit by a reigning British monarch since Edward VII paid his last call on Kaiser Wilhelm...
...chorus, a quartet of solo singers, four grand pianos and six percussionists, and demanded that they, as well as the dancers, all be onstage. Last week at the New York State Theater, Jerome Robbins crammed them all in, contrived an angular, hectic choreography for Stravinsky's feverish music...
...others have merely consolidated the gains of the summer without advancing significantly. The slowing of activity was not unexpected, and stems partly from the decline in the number of field workers, the cessation of national publicity, a lack of funds, and a need to recuperate from the summer's feverish pace...