Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing we will not do is give prior warning of our intentions," he replied. The White House says there has been no decision, but that Paisley's opposition will be "irrelevant" to what Clinton does. On the Catholic side, Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, has been holding a frantic series of meetings with the people who, as Adams says, "made the struggle, made the sacrifices and made the big commitment" -- in short, the I.R.A. So far, he is getting a mixed reaction, but he is confident that he will ultimately bring them along...
...rush to dress the stars was more frantic than ever, to the point where Escada made fabric especially to match nominee Gloria Stuart's eyes. But most celebs played it safe, which made ROBIN WILLIAMS' suit--he quipped that it came from "the Giorgio Armani Amish collection"--look all the more stylish. ROD STEIGER went for the minimalist T shirt and jewelry look, apparently unaware that this works only on people with near perfect bodies, like MINNIE DRIVER, who wore a "take that, Matt Damon" Halston. MADONNA mixed designers, but oops, they didn't match...
...places that only the orchestra seemed to know. However, Joe Levin `98, changed the mood by performing a fast and striking flute solo with the orchestra providing major dynamic contrast. Playing off Levin's solo was a long clarinet scherzo, shrieking through technically challenging runs in some kind of frantic war dance, stopping for moments to provide a melodious peace, only to gradually build up more tension into crazy clarinet runs, successfully demonstrated by Dan Schneider...
...chords. With force, the orchestra traded the theme throughout the orchestra, the violinists' hands becoming nothing but a blur from the rapid bowing. The orchestra members' faces crinkled by concentration, the rapid succession of each measure reached a point of chromatic suspended progression, only to return back to the frantic rapidity, ending in a clever pizzicato ending...
Last Monday, 18-month-old Jonathan Waldick of Kissimmee, Fla., was asleep, wrapped in a blanket, when a tornado roared through his room. After the twister passed, Waldick's great-grandmother, Shirley Driver, along with several neighbors, began a frantic search...