Word: frantic
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...Here's another peculiarity: this ritual of relaxation is cresting at a cultural moment when noise and agitation are everywhere. We work longer hours, with TVs and portable radios blaring as the sound track for frantic wage slaves. If a teen isn't trussed to his headphones or plugged into a chat room, it's because his cell phone has just beeped. America is running in place, in the spa or at work. And after Letterman and Clinton, nobody takes the world seriously; everything is up for laughs...
...year-old widely published professor of business and a naturalized American since 1995, left his wife and daughter at their home in Hong Kong to visit a friend across the border in the economic boomtown of Shenzhen. That was Feb. 25, and he never got there. His frantic wife, Liu Yingli, rang the U.S. consulate, which assured her that her husband was alive but had been detained. More than a month later the former political activist remains in custody, and according to someone close to the family, the accusations against him are "very similar" to the espionage tag the government...
Once it did reach its offensive end, the Crimson frequently seemed confused and frantic in failing to play intelligently...
London Britain's European neighbors stepped up frantic efforts to prevent foot-and-mouth disease from crossing the English Channel. As new cases of the contagious animal virus turned up in Northern Ireland and Scotland, Germany ordered the destruction of sheep and goats recently imported from Britain. France sent 50,000 sheep to the slaughter and the European Commission banned U.K. livestock imports until at least March 9. Britain-which had already halted the export of all livestock, milk and meat products-restricted animal movements. The crisis bit deep into the rural economy and reignited national debate about food safety...
...group's show at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., on Feb. 3 started with a simulated meteor shower and gradually grew more frantic. The music, like good sportsmanship at an XFL game, was subordinate to spectacle...