Word: frantic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...audience’s attention. In the lyrics of “Beercan,” Beck declares, “I quit my job blowing leaves,” and it seems like he finally has. There was still plenty of performance art, but none of it was frantic, and none of it felt forced. The fatherhood, the religion, the aging—it’s only turned Beck into someone who knows how to relax and be an expert performer. Not a faker, not an imitator, and not a producer of artifice. A musicmaker. A dreamer...
Guitarist John Scofield is no stranger to the Cambridge jazz haven Regattabar, but when he returns to the Charles Hotel’s fabled lounge for a two-night stand, he will abandon his usual frantic and funky post-bop for the deep soul of Ray Charles’ songbook...
...feet, mother and daughter are separated. Lots of frantic searching and intense, emotionally charged dialogue ensue. Soon, Kyle’s sanity comes into question as everyone around her begins to doubt that Julia ever boarded the plane at all. Mistrusted by both the flight’s reserved but compassionate captain (Sean Bean) and its reticent Air Marshal, Carson (Peter Sarsgaard, in a well-executed performance), Kyle is left to struggle alone...
...Silence of the Lambs,” radiates the taut energy and strained composure of a woman possessed, teetering capriciously on the brink of her own sanity. However, Foster occasionally overshoots the intensity of her performance, and the earnestness of her emoting occasionally borders on the hyper-frantic: she clenches her jaw a little too tightly and relies a bit too heavily on her staple big-eyes-welling-up-with-tears expressions...
...seven minutes remaining after Keeley’s goal, the play became very frantic as the Buckeyes tried to even the score. Ohio State even replaced its goalie and sent her well beyond the 18-yard...