Word: franticness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Everything must come to an end, and the Democrats’ drum-roll is becoming more frantic with each passing day. Political pundits are honing in on the ‘mathematical’ probability that Obama’s growing delegate lead will spell victory after or even before the remaining eight contests remaining have been settled. But before the verdict is announced, no matter its nature, anyone who has followed this roller coaster campaign trail with fervor or mere bemusement should appreciate what this extraordinary race has meant for America, and the tantalizing balance that, still hanging...
...this bunch (and, yes, I watched all of them), the 1942 The Affairs of Martha is an all-too-frantic suburban comedy. Reunion in France, which opened within a month of Casablanca, has a similar plot - Paris society belle Joan Crawford is tempted to leave her Resistance-hero husband for American airman John Wayne - but it's miscast, risibly implausible, your basic botch. In The Canterville Ghost (1944), Dassin's job was to referee between two shameless scene-stealers: Charles Laughton and the seven-year-old Margaret O'Brien. If there's a magic moment in any of these features...
...immaculate a tailor as Armani, Scorsese makes the tone of each film fit its characters. American Boy, like its subject, is fast, almost frantic, a movie on a cocaine jag. Italianamerican, a conversation with his parents about their lives in New York City's Little Italy and their roots in Sicily, has an earthy, homemade vibe--not surprising since it was made in the home he grew up in. The closing credits include his mom's recipe for spaghetti sauce...
...that hundreds were feared dead, including an unknown number of British tourists. Three days later, as the beleaguered and sleep-deprived response team was still trying to ascertain the identities of the British victims and survivors, the island's volcano erupted, sparking a riotous evacuation scenario in which frantic locals fought with shell-shocked British citizens for spots on the rescue boat. Sandwiched between the two events was a rotating cast of corrupt customs officials, traumatized crash victims, a blood-lusty press corps, unidentified bodies showing up in the morgue, ill-equipped local doctors with a penchant for amputation, grieving...
...down and got into our offense in the second half,” said co-captain Lindsay Hallion, who finished the game with seven points, four assists, and two steals. “In the first half they were pressuring us a little bit and we sort of got frantic, but in the second half we executed better and got great shots.” The result was that Harvard stood just one game away from a spot in the tournament. And although she was happy with the way her team rectified its early mistakes, Delaney-Smith still prefers...