Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Knicks have the ball, down two, with 6.5 seconds to go. With Oakley about to inbounds, Van Gundy calls a frantic time...
...when the actors had their moments, they really had them. The physical grappling that ends Act II crackled onstage with John's frantic self-doubt scraping against Carol's assaulted dignity. Kaye's daringly quiet, remarkably pointed reading of Carol's plea "Will somebody please help me?" cast a perfect pall over a notoriously uneasy intermission...
...jovial team of actors runs through the plays at a frantic pace, boiling Mamet's scenes down to a few strategic lines. The actors' own smiles were evident even when they were supposed to be portraying Mamet's rage and angst. As a result, at least one joke--the excessive use of expletives in Mamet's plays--lost its bite. Nonetheless, "Speed-the-Play," as written, works as a mordantly funny critique of over-the-top postmodern theater...
...America last Tuesday night. Like his counterparts at ABC and CBS, he had to vamp on the air as two bizarrely incompatible events prepared to collide: President Clinton's State of the Union speech and a verdict in the O.J. Simpson civil trial. In Brokaw's earpiece, frantic conversations were taking place between NBC News executives in New York City and the producer on duty in Washington, with Brokaw chiming in whenever he got a few seconds off the air. "It was an American cultural meltdown," he says. "There were no rules you could turn to." Yet there...
Taborsky would not be bought. Taking his notebooks with him, he dropped out of school and delegated his newly wed wife Jennifer to field a barrage of frantic calls from Carnahan, who finally asked the university police to confiscate Taborsky's notes. The university, concerned that Taborsky's recalcitrance might set a precedent, filed criminal charges, accusing him of grand theft of trade secrets. Says Noreen Segrest, the school's general counsel: "It is irrelevant to us who invented [the process...