Word: franticness
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Suddenly, my search was about much more than a lousy old shirt. I was unearthing my own little piece of Harvard history. I sent frantic e-mails to Rome, Los Angeles, Beijing and Boston. Half of the responses turned out to be dead ends. But four days and more than 40 e-mails later, I finally struck gold...
...granted. After more than 65 million votes poured in--more than half the number cast in the 2000 presidential election--FANTASIA BARRINO, a single mom from High Point, N.C., was crowned the third American Idol. It was a controversial season in which guest judge Elton John cried racism, frantic voters decried the jammed phone lines and the state of Hawaii just plain cried for its third-place finisher. Barrino, 19, a bluesy belter who had been an early favorite, beat Diana DeGarmo, 16, by 1.3 million votes in the finale. It was, aptly, a fairy-tale ending for a woman...
...Ashley), with "a 4.2 GPA," wakes up anxious the day she is to deliver a speech that could win her a scholarship to Oxford. Her rebellious sib Roxy (Mary-Kate) is cutting school, again, to attend the making of a rock video. Their paths cross, and they spend a frantic five hours in Manhattan getting into cute scrapes, kooky car chases, a few changes of clothes and the city's sewers...
...about 150 Marines, backed by Humvees armed with .50-cal. machine guns, push out in a staggered formation, about 10 yds. apart on both edges of the dirt road. To the right, we hear explosions and loud shooting. As we advance, the noise of fighting is joined by the frantic barking of dogs and the lowing of cattle. At a point where the track forks right, a group of Marines sets up mortars and fires them into a building believed to be a reinforced bunker. The building goes up in flames. "Move! Move!" says...
...more effective was the authentically anthemic “Almost Crimes,” which had Haines and pseudo-frontman Kevin Drew singing together in waves of mounting energy, leading the audience to rewarding sections of frantic improvisation. This song, with its impromptu guitar solos and impassioned finale, truly stole the show and the audience. “Cause=Time” was another highlight—a steadily chugging offbeat propelled the more restrained, but just as powerful number, its potential voltage crackling under a metronomic progression...