Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast then breaks into a frantic and sensuous rock 'n roll dance featuring a scorching electric guitar lead, a funky organ and a pulsating and quickening beat. The dance typifies the effective manner in which Fosse handles the elements of sex and slang in his production. With gaining speed, the dancers throw one another around the stage, while throwing Pippin into breasts and behinds. In one part of the dance, the dancers lower Pippin on and off a series of female dancers who somersault on the stage floor to lie flat beneath him. Right in synch with the dancing...
...people have felt since before the time of Socrates when faced with something they do not understand. Thus, a financier may quite coldly denounce a Marxist critique of the capitalist system, but when he is told that his son or daughter has joined a mystical Oriental sect he goes frantic trying to combat a system that baffles...
...were never too important to earlier successful series. Obviously this twin fixation strikes a popular chord-for the Tuesday night hits win every age group in the Nielsen survey. The America they reflect is younger and sassier than the one that once embraced Lucy and Dobie. Happy Days'frantic pace is TV's equivalent of the erotic drive of Top 40 radio...
Last October, Congress tried to mess. In the lengthy and comprehensive Health Manpower Act of 1976, one little sentence slipped through unnoticed in the frantic late hours just before the act's passage...
With a deft snip of the scissors and some decidedly un-frantic clawing at 30-year old wrapping paper, Harley Holden, curator of the University archives, yesterday opened a package containing papers of former Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, all of which apparently relate, as expected, to the Sacco-Vanzetti case...