Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guilty secret of John Cassavetes' films was that they relied on Hollywood star quality. His lupine smile sent out laser beams of frantic menace, and Gena Rowlands had (still has) a face the camera can't stop watching. When she shows up in She's So Lovely to hear Penn murmur, "You're a very beautiful woman, and I haven't been around the kindness of women in some time," it's a sweet tribute from this generation of Method mesmerizers to the one who taught them...
...have rarely seen, in a picture intended for mainstream audiences, the kind of sustained suffering Moore's character endures here. But the director, Ridley Scott, a great imagist, imparts a bleak, often astonishing beauty to the brutal, frantic (and generally drenched) scramble of training exercises. And he does not eroticize the movie's violence, handling the kinky, if unspoken, attraction that develops between O'Neil and Viggo Mortensen's master chief, the man in charge of clubbing the baby SEALs into fighting trim, with sardonic objectivity. We know where Scott's sympathies lie--he did, after all, make those terrific...
...popular films of Alfred Hitchcock show that the American people love terror, horror and pain. The Andrew Cunanan-Gianni Versace murder case seems to have that ring to it [NATION, Aug. 4]. No one would have thought that this murderer would put the nation in such a frantic state. With Cunanan's desperate suicide, the worst of this nightmare is over, but we will probably never know what caused him to commit five murders across the country. MARGARET JONES Prescott...
...YORK: Will the market bounce back into steadily-rising mode after another frantic Friday? Most likely. Friday's wild ride-with the Dow giving up as much as 2 percent in value before recovering most of the lost ground-was a symptom of market jitters rather than a sign that the bull run is over. What's the Dow doing now? Check here...
About 11 p.m. on Wednesday, a frantic man flagged down a police car in Brooklyn, N.Y. Something terrible was about to happen, he tried to tell the cops, using broken English and sign language. At one point he flung his arms apart to indicate an explosion. When a translator arrived at the local precinct house, the man reported a plot by men he was living with to set off an explosion in New York City's subways that could have matched in carnage the blast that had just devastated Jerusalem's busiest market...