Word: franticness
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Seduced and Abandoned Pietro Germi Germi's lunar eclipse of a dark comedy, which followed his Divorce Italian Style, suggests Preston Sturges run riot in Sicily. In this lunatic 1964 retooling of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (unwanted pregnancy, frantic attempt to get the girl married, small town in an uproar), Botticelli-beautiful Stefania Sandrelli is Agnese, a lamb led to the slaughter of her ideals by a father, a family and a society that values honor (status) over honesty. Germi's tireless cinematic inventiveness matches his furious pace in a magnificent satire that leaves the viewer exhausted, angry...
...other refugees from the area, it's a ghost town. She fled with her two sisters this morning after the shelling grew particularly intense. She said they walked for four hours "with the clothes on our backs" but her other two sisters eventually fell behind. She is now frantic to find out what happened to them...
...night I watch the Lebanese news channels and their footage of bombings, bloodied children and frantic civilians trying to help their countrymen into ambulances. I see the weeping women and scared kids. But I don't see Beirut anymore...
...still do. The day before Alan’s death, I called him. I was working at a concert in New York City, and we needed a lighting operator at the last minute for a particular type of moving-lights console. As my boss got more and more frantic, I was more and more insistent on reaching Alan. When I was walking back up the narrow revolving stairwell to the production office, I realized that my phone was ringing, but I was too late answering. Instead, I was greeted by a pleasant voicemail with two names and phone numbers that...
...frazzing Frantic, ineffective multitasking, typically with the delusion that you are getting a lot done. The quality of the work, however, is poor...