Word: frantic
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...Disorder follows me wherever I go--it took hours to clean out my office at The Crimson when I finally handed over the presidency. Andrew, the new president, has apparently learned his lesson; the office is now spartan but orderly. In my opinion, Andrew is pretty damn together, frantic outbursts aside--he knows how to throw things away...
...plot of Falsettos revolves around Marvin (Brad Rouse), a middle aged gay man who is unwilling to sacrifice his dream of a close-knit family, no matter what the wishes of that 'family' might be. He brings together his frantic ex-wife Trina (Leslie Yahia), antisocial son Jason (Chris Terrio), and vain lover Whizzer (Michael Stone) all under one roof. Marvin's hapless efforts to fit all the pieces of his life together provide the comic energy of the first half. Flung into this house of neurotics is also Martin's less-than-stable psychiatrist, Mendel (Reese Snow...
DIED. ED FLANDERS, 60, actor; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Denny, California. Flanders' career included a string of Emmy-winning roles, notably that of Dr. Donald Westphall, the sane, soulful center of the surreally frantic St. Eligius Hospital in the 1980s TV series St. Elsewhere...
...normally controlled Salinas lost his temper. He screamed and yelled, then attempted to reach the new President by phone. Zedillo was not answering. Salinas tried ringing lower-level officials in a frantic bid to negotiate. A few called back, but none could help. Finally, in desperation, he dispatched several members of his military guard to his sister's house. Halfway there, the guards were halted on orders of Defense Secretary Enrique Cervantes, who had radioed for them to be stopped...
Sometimes Smith has to improvise. When a Canadian artist's work was impounded by customs, he had to negotiate its release with frantic phone calls. "Every week I feel I've dodged a bullet," he says. Last month he had to dodge a blizzard. A picture arriving late from Los Angeles was grounded by snow in Chicago. It made it into the building at 7 p.m. Saturday, barely beating our final deadline. To do this week's painting of the O.J. Simpson trial, Smith chose Jon Ellis, whose vivid style lends itself to the circus motif-and who delivered...