Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what has this technology accomplished? In Barrett's dour view, it has enslaved us. William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" of the Industrial Revolution have brought forth even more hellish inventions to refuel the Western world's "frantic dynamism." Solzhenitsyn's Gulag, B.F. Skinner's proposals for a "technology of behavior" and the threat of nuclear holocaust complete a disastrous legacy...
...Jakes (The Bastard), institutions like the Agatha Christie estate, romancers like Rosemary Rogers and Victoria Holt owe their millions to the modest little 7-in. by 4-in. volumes that decorate racks at drugstores, airports, supermarkets and book emporiums. No wonder that Mario Puzo's latest effort excited such frantic bidding. With paperback rights, the successful bidder would be able to saturate those ubiquitous wire racks?if Puzo's track record is any guide?with one of next year's biggest blockbusters. Stores would be clamoring for every paperback copy of Fools Die they could lay hands on. This...
...only entry is a five-lane road so clogged that drivers sometimes spend at least 45 minutes inching toward the parking area, then another 15 to 30 minutes to find a space. At Chicago's O'Hare, the nation's busiest, backed-up traffic frequently extends for blocks; frantic travelers spring from boxed-in cabs and dash, bags in hand, for the terminal...
...same time the script is not paced as well as one would wish. There are patches of water-treading and even stasis alternating with patches of too-frantic activity. The play thus produces not only shudders and laughs but also occasional yawns. Still, the new text is fully as entertaining as the old. For some reason, though, the producers are advertising this show as having "an all-star Broadway cast." If words still have any meaning at all, this has got to be the hyperbole of the season...
...already so grossly undervalued against the West German mark that the exchange rate remained relatively stable at about 2.04 to the dollar. But the value of the Swiss franc rose to an alltime high of 1.75, and the price of gold surged to a record $201 an ounce on frantic trading in both London and Zurich...