Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keating's mad scene is less frantic and more funny than any of the shouting, jumping fits the other characters lapse into. Murray has him carry a birdcage around as a mocking of Diogenes' lantern. Its mere presence is a marvelous touch. Murray, in one of those decisions which saves this production, doesn't have him constantly swing it around...
...from camp, the college kids were knocking off from summer jobs for that last wild week of parties at the beach. The summer travelers were siphoning back through gigantic customs bottlenecks, and millions of women throughout the U.S. were getting set for the months ahead. But no matter how frantic or busy, each somehow found time to leaf through the fashion magazines and scan the women's pages of the daily papers in search of one thing: where is that new coat, new suit, new dress or ball gown...
...plaudit for Chaliapin's Bacall à la Botticelli. She emerges bewitching and eternally feminine right into our frantic 20th century...
Inevitably, the wreckers are wrenching a few heartstrings. Frantic efforts to save the venerable, 83-year-old opera house ended in failure last week as the Old Met Opera House Corp., whose trustees included Soprano Licia Albanese and U.S. Senator Jacob Javits, admitted "with a heavy heart" that it was unable to raise the $8 million to $12 million needed to save the building. Commented the New York Times: "It is live opera that opera lovers support, not dead houses...
...thigh of the London mini. Followers of the high-rise trend have found themselves caught in a profusion of embarrassment just in the simple act of sitting down. "Thighs?" sighed one London designer. "Every girl I know is dieting to get into short skirts." Where was the frantic escalation to be stopped? As the grands couturiers last week paraded next fall's fashion, they provided the answer: in Paris...