Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frantic effort seemed to buoy law-enforcement officials and the Hearst family. Charles Bates, head of the FBI'S task force in the Hearst case, got a "seat-of-the-pants feeling" that Patricia might be freed last Wednesday, on her 20th birthday. Mother Catherine Hearst, who had been gently criticized by Patricia in one message for appearing on TV in somber black clothes, promised that she would don "a pretty dress" for her daughter's return. "They've asked me to make a gesture of sincerity, and that's what we've done," said...
This French obstinacy, reports TIME'S chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers, has little to do with energy: "Rather, the French intransigence reflects a general frustration with France's diminishing role in the world at large, and its frantic efforts to carve out a new sphere of influence." France, Rademaekers reports, is worried that smoother U.S. relations with the Soviet Union presage a deal whereby the superpowers would tacitly divide the world into areas of influence, with the U.S. getting Western Europe and France left unconsulted. Also, France is riled by its lessening power in the Common Market, where...
...gaping wasteland is broken only by the occasional adobe huts and the surrounding protective adobe walls of the Aymara Indians, who have scratched out a living here for countless centuries. Soon the huts become more numerous, and further on there is a hint of the nearing metropolis in the frantic crowds of women and children who descend upon the bus at every stop trying to sell meager greasy pastries and bottles of sugary soda. The road continues on through the stark plateau...
...migration from the country to the city has accelerated at a frantic pace in recent years. In 1966 La Paz had a population of 325,000; today, it is estimated to be close to 600,000. The annual per capita income in Bolivia is an astoundingly meager $200, the lowest in South America. The bulk of this poverty is concentrated in the wind-swept altiplano that surrounds La Paz. For centuries the Aymara lived here in isolation, speaking their own Indian tongue and showing a hostile back to any intruders. However, with each passing year, improved transportation and communication...
Imagine Ionesco's Rhinoceros cut, cramped, revved up and staged on a go-go dancer's platform in a roadhouse discothèque. That gives a hint of the kind of upbeat, frantic vulgarization done here by Julian Barry and Tom O'Horgan in another of eight filmed plays mounted by the American Film Theater. O'Horgan and Barry collaborated on Lenny, the Broadway biography of Lenny Bruce, and this film contains the same sort of trendy stunts, the same kind of empty, aggressive energy...