Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the legend springs less from the frantic Fitzgeralds than from Gerald and Sara Murphy, the subjects of this immaculate essay. The first hundred pages of Tender Is the Night evoke a world nearly as lyrical as Keats' vision of embalmed darkness and sunburnt mirth, and it was a world palpably created by the Murphys. For nearly a decade, artists of all sorts enjoyed a respite from their messy lives in the company of Gerald and Sara. Picasso, Stravinsky, Hemingway, Cole Porter-all were drawn to the couple before the Fitzgeralds arrived in France...
AFTER all of the frantic legal maneuvering, the hasty argumentation, the acceleration of suspense in the certainty that a historic ruling was imminent, the U.S. Supreme Court revealed its Pentagon papers decision in a decorous session that lasted only four minutes. The decision consisted of just three dry paragraphs, and was summed up in two words: "We agree." By a margin of 6 to 3, the Justices thus confirmed the judgment of several lower courts. The U.S. Government had failed to prove that it had the right to prevent the New York Times and Washington Post from publishing the secret...
...population has been victimized by deliberate acts of brutality. A baby Australian wallaby left the protection of its mother's pouch and was stoned to death; a duck died with a steel-tipped hunting arrow in its breast. A pregnant reindeer miscarried after firecracker-hurling youths bombed the frantic animal into convulsions. Visitors have been observed dropping lighted cigar butts on the backs of alligators, watching the ashes burn through the reptiles' skin, then breaking into laughter when the alligators reacted to the severe burn. Finally, the zoo's male hippopotamus choked to death last week after...
...very least, their return seems emblematic of a group of lives that were filled with the kind of options that, amid the frantic energies of the times, might have appeared nonexistent, but, to a much more determniistic age, appear in some sad but nonetheless special way, somehow charmed. If only for the fact that, surrounded by the chaos of the forties, the silent death of the fifties, and the threats of the sixties, they once again survived...
...most coveted honor in U.S. horse racing, the Triple Crown? Last week a record crowd of 81,036 came to find out, as the big (16.1 hands) copper colt went to the post in the $125,000 Belmont Stakes, the final jewel in the Triple Crown. A fleet, frantic 2 min. 30.2 sec. later, the fans at Belmont and millions more watching on TV in the U.S. and Venezuela had the answer...