Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hall, "handsome" Jimmy Walker, Fiorello LaGuardia, William O'Dwyer, etc. The Big Apple is jammed with warring factions: reformers fight reformers and bosses battle bosses. Unlike Chicago, where one man has ruled with supreme authority for two decades, New York is the scene of constantly shifting alliances and a frantic scramble for power and patronage...
Parker's life was as frantic as his music was creative. He said that he wanted to hear Schoenberg, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Bartok-but he could never find the time. Married twice, his amorous escapades were infamous. He was charming, monstrous, lonely, tortured. He was trapped in the upside-down world of jazz. Day began at dusk and ended whenever the counterfeit glow of alcohol, drugs and sex wore off. He began to use heroin to unlock the doors of creativity the way Coleridge used opium and Schiller inhaled rotten apples. Finally he lost the trick of living...
...times, the Crimson midfield was galvanized by Penn pressure, and with the return of Bob Frisbie even managed some gutsy and frantic passing clears. But in contrast with the open and controlled Penn offensive game, Harvard attackers formed a confused and tangled mass in front of the goal...
...action has been particularly frantic of late, partly because of the international monetary turmoil. Many a speculator has thought that 10,000 lbs. of copper, say, had more potential value than the dollars needed to buy a future on them. More important, commodity prices are being rocketed upward by a huge increase in worldwide demand for U.S. farm products. "Our markets are coming out of the age of surpluses," which always had a potential to depress prices, says CBT Pit Trader Richard H. Mayer...
What is most surprising is that after those five frantic weeks in Norway, Joe Losey-back in his home base of London-is convinced that he has "an exceptionally good picture." It is scheduled for release in the U.S. next fall. He believes that some of Jane's changes actually helped improve the movie, and that her acting for the most part was "superb." It is also true that he "covered" himself with supplementary scenes in such a way that he can cut out Jane's verbosity in the editing wherever it gets...