Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Booksellers' orders were so frantic that within 24 hours a second edition of 650,000 copies was.ordered...
...occasion, Director Carl Reiner offers an ingenious sight gag, and the energy of his cast is never allowed below the manic level, producing some legitimate, if frantic laughter. It was not for nothing that Reiner was the greatest second banana in TV history; it was for next to nothing. His film is but a single joke, and the punch line is the commonplace twelve-letter obscenity...
...keyboard, and he is a prodigious sight reader. The trouble, some critics contend not unjustly, is that he spends too much time sight-reading and not enough time thinking about the works he already knows. But Barenboim's surface accomplishment is perhaps a peculiar result of the frantic musical life he has so far chosen to lead...
Wasserman said he is well aware of the crucial Cambridge housing shortage. "I'm the only developer now building low and middle income housing in Cambridge," he pointed out. According to Michael Rosenburg of the Cambridge Planning Department, the acute housing shortage "can't be solved by frantic construction. There's got to be an overall strategy for Cambridge, including renovating buildings we already have...
Today international music contests are about as numerous-and as hard to tell apart-as Vivaldi concertos. The Chopin event, though, is exceptional because it is held only once every five years, so competitive standards are kept high. After his victory, Ohlsson embarked on a frantic twelve-day concert series in Poland, followed by a four-concert tour with the Philadelphia Orchestra. What he played, of course, was his victory piece: Chopin's Concerto in E Minor. At Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall, there were brief bubbles of superfluous agitation. But most of the time Ohlsson played Chopin with...