Word: frantic
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...frustrating because we were really psyched," Co-Captain Beth Reilly said. "We played at a frantic pace at the beginning and we were just hitting the ball too hard...
...probably been the largest bear market in any country since World War II," says Peter Tasker, head of research at Kleinwort Benson International in Tokyo. In a fleeting burst of euphoria, the index zoomed a record 13% last Tuesday, but much of the gain was the result of frantic government moves to shore up the market. Among other things, the Finance Ministry gave investors easier access to borrowed money and curbed the hours of futures trading...
...have spent hours on a frantic search for ways to restore the brown locks that once danced ever so gracefully on my scalp--or at least to make the premature departure of my hair less noticeable. Sometimes, when I'm lying in bed late at night, I even consider calling the toll-free number for Hair Club...
Only! Long before the series' April premiere, ecstatic critics were priming TV viewers to expect the unexpected. Lynch's two-hour pilot didn't disappoint. It was frantic and lugubrious in turn, a soap opera with strychnine. In one night, the show had hip America hooked. Twin Peaks stoked a media frenzy unseen since the Dallas heyday. But this time the director, not the star, was the prime beneficiary. David Lynch...
Overshadowing The Final Club is a sense of impending doom, a sense that for all the frantic activity, all the creative energy, all the waste, all the parties, all the snubs, the characters are trapped in a world beyond their control. Like Gatsby, they try to control the world through their social creations--or at least try to convince themselves that they are in control. Their final clubs, their final parties, their finally perfect resumes cannot protect them from whim of nature and arbitrary pain, from the book's dreadful and final resolution...