Word: frantic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...film, their relationship is left very much unexplained, which hinders the audience from connecting with his character or sharing in his joy decades later, when he finds her again. Lara churns out a good performance in her more intense scenes, such as when she is possessed by a frantic Sumerian-speaker. Otherwise, when called upon for subtle acting in normal conversations, her performance becomes lifeless. Such difficulties may be linked to the fact that English is not the mother tongue of this German/Romanian actress. The language barrier may also account for the usually exceptional Swiss actor Bruno Ganz?...
...Somewhere between the frantic name games and M&M-spiked trail mix, I began to think that I might survive the trip with minimal traumatic flashbacks. After the desolate expanses of Texas and New Mexico, New Hampshire seemed cute to me (a word I was never to use again after watching the horror cross my fellow hikers’ faces). The fact that the group leaders would elaborately “bear-trap” our supplies every night when we were only a few miles from the highway was endearing rather than intimidating. The earnestness of New England camping...
...Darwin disappeared on March 21, 2002, after paddling his red kayak into the North Sea. His wife reported him missing that night, and despite a frantic rescue effort - which combed 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km) of sea and included nearly a dozen boats and a Royal Air Force helicopter - the search party found no trace of the former prison officer. The splintered remains of his vessel washed ashore six weeks later...
...music to co-exist on each of the album’s tracks. Social warrior though he may be, Wyclef can’t quite make it happen. His poignant frustration with the state of the world leads to touching insight at times, but it gets lost in the frantic cultural sampling of “Memoirs.” Wyclef told New York Magazine this fall that he sees the disc as something of a magnum opus. “This album means so much to me—it’s like Bob Marley?...
...overjoyed” when she heard the news on Monday. “I am so excited to live in England—to experience a new culture and a different atmosphere,” she said. Galbreth, who studies French literature and linguistics, recounted the frantic moments before discovering that she had won the scholarship. “My computer froze right when I tried to open the attachment,” she said. “I had to run to my roommate’s computer to read the message. The whole process took about 10 minutes...