Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sensitive, masculine and alert, but it took a decade or more for him to achieve true Marcellosity. In Visconti's rapturous White Nights (1957), Mastroianni spent the whole movie pleading fruitlessly for Maria Schell's love. To impress her he does a spaz-jazz dance, hilarious in its frantic clumsiness. At the end he walks off like Chaplin, alone into the snowy dawn...
...enshlocklopedic knowledge of scare-film tropes, from the Friday the 13th hockey mask to the Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer TV helmet. In one of the cute touches from Kevin Williamson's script, this psycho wears an Edvard Munch "Silent Scream" mask while taunting and then killing a frantic young woman (Drew Barrymore) alone in the dark. But that's just for practice. The next victim is a teenage virgin (pretty, plucky Neve Campbell, one of the preternaturally bedimpled kids on TV's Party of Five...
Milstein tells the students on their way out not to talk to students still in line. "They haven't turned in their materials yet. They're bad," she yells. She turns her attention to the frantic students in line: "You're all going to work for the recruiting office now. It's $10 an hour for the rest of your life...
...military keeps in storage are not combat ready. "In some places," says a high-ranking reserve officer, "it reminds me of the way things were before the 1973 war," when an Arab invasion caught Israel miserably unprepared. Now the army is ordering a sweeping inspection program. "Before these frantic checks," says a logistics officer, assessing the condition of the armored vehicles in his brigade, "70% wouldn't get to their destination. Even now, in a case of war, 50% won't get to the front." Obviously, there is much more to be done before Israel's concerned defenders...
...friends (and my thesis) beckon to me. Someday, perhaps at our 25th reunion, perhaps sooner, we'll look back and laugh. We'll wonder why we worried so much about the future, which in retrospect will seem to have been quite clear. We will reach a point when those frantic high school days will have truly passed from existence, to rear their ugly head no more. We will have proven ourselves and we will be satisfied. After all, we went to Harvard...