Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lost Insight. The results of this impassioned pursuit of anarchy are catastrophic for both Tarl and the novel. In her determination to keep her son Benjamin out of school, she embarks on two frantic years of hysterical defiance and evasion, finally breaks with her shadowy husband and goes to jail. She is believable at first because she is so remarkably irritating, later because her repetitious moralizing becomes so remarkably dull. She wears platitudes the way other women wear perfume, and the fact that many of them are fresh, new platitudes does not keep them from becoming stale...
Authorities rushed to deny this story before the suicide rates leaped to frantic heights...
...complex plot revolves around a couple of murders and a frantic search for, strangely enough, the Maltese Falcon, a sixteenth century jewel encrusted gold statue worth an estimated two million dollars. The film's most notable feature, however, is not the mystery of its plot but the awesomely rugged character of its hero, private detective Sam Spade...
Yovicsin said he thought professionals wanted to stop the frantic bidding for college players, too. "They need good relations with colleges. This is where their players come from and their coaches, too. College coaches do a lot of work for professional teams; even in the Ivy League they send us forms asking for specific information on a boy or asking if we have any prospects. On a team like Alabama, for instance, that would amount to a lot of work...
Kiss Me, Stupid. The careers of Producer-Director Billy Wilder and his favorite collaborator, Writer I.A.L. Diamond, can be traced in a curve that peaked in such frantic, funny, wickedly knowing comedies as Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, plunged downward in Irma La Douce, and now lands in the murk of Kiss Me, Stupid, a jape that seems to have scraped its blue-black humor off the floor of a honky-tonk nightclub...