Word: frantic
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After a weeklong national alert and a frantic series of fruitless tips and searches set off by Susan Smith's vivid accounts, the hunt for the carjacking kidnapper of 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander ended in Union County, South Carolina, the place where the tragedy began. Authorities accused Smith of murdering the children after police found her car with the boys inside at the bottom of a local lake. The arrest shocked the community and appeared to confirm some of the worst infanticidal suspicions of early doubters of Smith's tale...
John's unpleasant precosciousness comes across as creepy rather than charming and funny. Far better and more genuine are the scenes featuring the older John and Lisa (played by Liz Amberg), though the latter's character is never developed enough to justify John's frantic state of mind...
...federal government is bracing for tomorrow's opening of fierce bidding in the second stage of the largest federal auction of the airwaves ever, one featuring bidding by alliances of some of the world's largest telecommunications companies. Last July, the FCC netted more than $600 million from frantic betting for new pager and cellular phone "bandwidths" and this week's bidding should push the total value of the auction at over $1 billion. More than two dozen companies are expected to compete for 30 regional licenses to offer a web of more powerful wireless services, such...
...fashioned romantic comedy in which a couple -- nicely played by Mary Stuart Masterson and Brian Benben -- are bickering their way toward divorce even though they're still in love; a satire of all the conventions of big-time radio, circa 1939; a group caricature of all the types -- frantic sound-effects man, silky-voiced announcer -- the medium once nurtured...
Especially notable was her rendition of madness; with her hair loose and a frantic, self-absorbed demeanor, Ponomarenko absorbed the audience in her pain as she pantomimed the scenes Giselle had shared with Count Albrecht...