Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closed fist of a heart may put audiences at a distance; and 174 minutes is a lot of time to spend with four troubled souls moseying toward inevitability. But the popularity of pizazzy Hollywood melodrama should not mean that the only movie pace is four-on-the-floor frantic. Beloved has a pulse that beats slower because the hearts of its characters are heavier; but that pulse is evidence of complex people sifting through the ashes of a national tragedy, trying to find meaning and a reason to hope...
...front page. Upper-class students, who no longer have to schlep back and forth to the river for their noontime nourishment, were exuberant. Perhaps caught up in this unbridled enthusiasm, The Crimson lost its wits, portraying the sole beneficiaries of the bag lunches to be "time-pressed undergraduates." Undoubtedly, frantic pre-meds with five minutes to spare between orgo and B.S. reap the benefits of the program...
...online magazine Salon represented a knife in the heart of compromise. The House G.O.P. leadership fired off a letter to the FBI asking it to investigate the White House for trying to intimidate lawmakers, without being able to prove it was behind it. The White House put out frantic calls to its Hill Democrats trying to assure them that it hadn't leaked the story--Podesta called Hyde himself--but as spokesman Mike McCurry admitted, the perception in Washington is that "the White House lies about everything; our credibility is zero...
Even early on, a 1-0 advantage appeared enough for a victory, as Harvard's backs rarely allowed the Eagles a shot on goal, particularly in the first half. B.C. took eight shots in the game, most of which came in its frantic second-half effort to get back into the game...
...given as much information as possible before shopping period actually starts. Having all class syllabi and reading lists available on the web a few days in advance would greatly help students narrow their field of prospective classes from the very beginning. It would also help to eliminate the frantic rush to get one of the limited-edition paper syllabi distributed at the first class...