Word: frantic
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Manhattan's frantic avenues might seem light-years away from the simple life, but associate editor Janice Castro, who wrote this week's cover story, found early evidence of the back-to-basics trend in her own West Side New York City neighborhood. "Last year my brother Jim came from California on a business trip," she recalls. "On the third day he took me to a cafe he had found near my apartment, a cozy little no-frills place. As we walked in the door, the woman who runs the restaurant greeted him with a big smile, said, 'The usual...
...hostility to academic exploration has been most visible toward newer departments like Afro-American Studies. This fall, Afro-Am had literally dwindled down to nothing. Under heavy pressure, the administration has finally discovered Afro-Am, pursuing professors across the nation with offers of inflated salaries and other perks. These frantic moves have begun to reap dividends, as luminaries like Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Spike Lee have agreed to accept Harvard posts...
Stephanie Bates leans into the dressing-room mirror and delicately re- adjusts a false eyelash that perspiration has set askew. The women behind her scramble for their costumes, throwing off tap shoes, pulling on tights. The mood is frantic, but full dress rehearsals are like that. No one is quite comfortable with the routine...
...intended to project the image of a strong and unflappable leader during his televised interview on CNN last week. But his eyes may have betrayed him by sending an altogether different message. Close watchers of the interview could not help noticing that the Iraqi leader was blinking at a frantic pace (as often as 40 times a minute, vs. 20 to 25 during a TV interview last June). John Molloy, a consultant who trains salespeople to handle stress, says Saddam's fluttering eyelids may be a sign of mental breakdown. "When salesmen start blinking, they're usually in trouble," says...
...success of Operation Desert Storm, they collapsed in their sharpest drop in history. At the New York Mercantile Exchange, oil contracts for February delivery fell $10.56 per bbl. on Thursday after an avalanche of sell orders forced a one- hour halt in trading moments after the opening bell. The frantic trading slashed the oil price to near the $20-per-bbl. level that prevailed just before the gulf crisis began. "Euphoria is too weak a word," observes John Lichtblau, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation. "The market assumes that the allied forces will be victorious and that Saddam Hussein...