Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requested tickets to see Dylan and his bluesy bayou back-up group, the Band. In Los Angeles County, the 18,700-seat Forum received about 300,000 ticket requests. In New York City, Dylan followers seeking 12:01 a.m. postmarks on first-come, first-served mail orders created frantic midnight rushes. Frazzled promoters in San Francisco, faced with an ever-growing mountain of mail, finally bought newspaper ads imploring: "Please, no more mail orders...
...Sugar Bowl battle between Alabama and Notre Dame for the national championship was so frantic that ABC'S Howard Cosell could barely get in a sesquipedalian word. The two psyched-up teams ran off 160 plays, compared with a more leisurely pro average of about 120. The pros are allowed 30 seconds between plays-compared to 25 in college-and they do not get a brief time out after every first down. Before Notre Dame won 24-23, the lead changed hands six times. Notre Dame Quarterback Tom Clements dashed for 74 yds. on 15 carries, and Alabama...
Almost a year has passed since the Paris agreement brought an end to the U.S. fighting role in South Viet Nam, and last week the chief architects of the accord met again to review the current state of their handiwork. Taking time off from his frantic efforts to find peace in the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stopped by in Paris to confer with his partner in this year's Nobel Peace Prize, North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Due Tho.* Later, a U.S. spokesman said that the 4½-hour meeting at the Hotel Majestic...
...this movie asks us not only to accept that a man with that back ground could be aghast over a cop's getting free meals at a restaurant, but that he could violate the most basic code of the street: never inform. The source of Serpico's frantic, sometimes blind moral outrage is never shown...
...which has been stylishly revived by Manhattan's New Phoenix Repertory Company, is that it is sexier than most of his other farces. Here, the adulterers actually do commit adultery as well as catapult through the wrong doors at the wrong times. The chase is carnal and frantic, and the tone is leeringly Marxian (Groucho Dept.). Rachel Roberts is having her first affair, and John McMartin is the mad man in her life. As Bea Lillie once said, it's a case of"L'amour, the merrier...