Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign man" of Taxi. But all his other creations are here in full: the Mighty Mouse lip syncher, the Elvis impersonator, the wrestler who challenged women in the audience. And, of course, Tony Clifton, the hostile Las Vegas lounge singer. Carrey is easy in all those guises but never frantic for our favor. He gives a wonderfully disciplined performance...
...them ignoramuses, deplore. Strolling the latest Venice Biennale, novelist (and art critic) John Updike observed that it was nearly impossible to find anything that "reminded one of art in the old sense, even in the older modern sense," since "the desire to shock...had become veritably frantic...
...CNBC DAYTIME Like CNN and the Gulf War or Court TV and O.J., the financial-news net defined the boom era with its sharp, zesty, sports-jock-style coverage. In 1999, the business of America was business news, and cnbc's ticker--seen in bars, gyms, airports--was the frantic eeg of a stock-crazed, mercantile society...
...they'll have him, Keys would like to stay put past the frantic December rush...
...Where Alberto finds time to go dancing is unclear. In a frantic day at Harvard, he lays out desserts at Kirkland and races to the connecting hallway. From there he pushes a stack of plates to the Eliot dining hall. Then, he starts cleaning, or acting on someoneis request, or issuing orders himself. One Saturday, Luis declared, "Today, I'm the general manger." On Saturdays and Sundays, the managers come in only for five minutes or so, to make the payroll. "It's hard, because I have to do my job, and also tell other people what they should...