Word: frantic
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...adds, the pace pales in comparison to the frantic vote scramble before the February 24 presidential primary, which Carter won comfortably. "The final month was incredible. There was so much exposure and such a small electorate, it seemed like there were more campaign workers than voters." Now, she says, a definite "fatigue factor" has set in. "The average person on the street is so tired or hearing about the campaign. But in general, people here are a lot more aware...
...setting sun or outlined against a placid shoreline or engaged in night battle on a ground as mysteriously dark as the midnight sky. The hell-bent arrival of a messenger in a besieging army's encampment, or in a peaceful palace courtyard, becomes a little epiphany on the frantic nature, and perhaps the absurdity, of the world of affairs...
...rings out over an expanse of synthesized whooshing, as a ghostly chorus of deep Bowie-voices echoes every word and moan. A song like this suggests Bowie is not at all rootless, but almost pathological in his self-inspection, picking through the bones of his past work in a frantic attempt to piece together his own skeleton...
...that is his true passion -- womanizing. As his ex-wife (Annie Girardot) explains to him, he has slept with his wife's best friends and his best friends' wives and no one trusts him any longer. At first a farcial, light-hearted portrayal of an over extended, frantic womanizer, the film becomes a dramatic, often poignant probing of Edouard's moral and psychological dilemma...
Actually, as Pasternak's frantic letters to friends abroad show, his greatest fear during the terror-filled months following the Nobel award was for Ivinskaya. "She and her children are a kind of hostage for me," he wrote. In large part, his refusal of the Nobel Prize and his other concessions had been attempts to save her. Shortly before his death, he managed to send a letter to the West saying: "If, God forbid, they should arrest Olga, all toc sins should ring, just as would have been done in my own case, for an attack...