Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibly be wondering why I spent the first half of these listings on something that isn't opening until next week. Well, I had this great personal anecdote to tell, and next week I won't be here to do it. After a year and a half of frantic typing every Wednesday afternoon, I am handing over the caps to Rodney Perry. Catch you later...
...concert. The violinists shrieked at the top of their register without definable pitch, while the cellists slapped their instruments and scraped violently below the bridge with their bows, creating a tumult like the roar of giant wasps. Periodically, the screams would subside into desolate silence, fearfully anticipating the next frantic outburst. It was the Threnody written in 1960 by the Polish composer Penderecki as a memorial to the victims of Hiroshima, and it conjures vividly the sirens, the explosions, and the terrible agonies of the dying during the atomic blast...
...frantic phone call reveals that Dixon is right--a quarterback named Bateson with the physical characteristics of Bateman had starred for UTEP...
...unerring sense of comic misunderstanding, Charon was a standout onstage. One awed critic, reviewing his performance as Sganarelle in Moliere's Don Juan, observed that he could command a scene even when he was "simply standing onstage and watching." As a director, he could bring off the most frantic Feydeau farce with clockwork-perfect timing, achieving maximum impact...
...also is as near a fact as anything can be that any President or candidate is going to insist on some public appearances as long as this nation is not a police state. But we can make some changes. Presidential travel and campaigns have become huge and frantic spectacles. The size of the crowds at airports and along motorcade routes has become a bogus measure of political popularity...