Word: franticness
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...rocks," said police sergeant John Avera, "and we found two babies." Firemen tenderly carried the infants, as paramedics wrapped them in long white gauze like christening dresses. Several toddlers were found wandering around the underground parking lot, searching for parents. The parents in turn scrambled through the chaos, frantic to find their children. "You haven't seen my daughter, have you?" one woman asked everyone she passed...
...Wednesday alone, more than 400 people showed up to help sort and pack donations. "We're taking all kinds of things," said Tim Baker, 45, a senior official with Feed the Children who supervised the frantic loading and unloading of supplies. "At one point they needed rain gear and flashlight batteries. At another point all they wanted was aspirin and cold drinks." He estimates that in a 12-hour period on Wednesday, his volunteers, all of whom showed up that day, moved 100 pickup loads of supplies to the disaster area. People approached from all sides, handing him checks...
...sometimes left behind. General Smith, however, did call in 16 U.S. Marine guards from the embassy to keep Vietnamese army and air force officers from elbowing civilians aside and filling the planes. On April 25 he had to summon an entire platoon of 43 Marines to hold at bay frantic Vietnamese airmen who had climbed over the fence at night...
This general anxiety is given a focus when Jarred starts to take pictures of Flee while she sleeps. Once she becomes aware of this activity, Flee grows ever more frantic trying to get a glimpse of the photographs, which Jarred refuses to show her. Only when we see that these photos are of isolated body parts do we fully grasp the nature of this violation: it is a kind of dismemberment that is deeply disturbing...
Overall, Continuum Records has managed to put together a remarkable collection of tunes, which will hopefully initiate more people into the realm of ska. Too many of us are set in our musical views these days, and ska is certainly worth a try. The frantic, danceable nature of ska may not be ideal for the common room, so the thing to do is to look for posters in the Square and go to a ska show. It will probably set you back a total of five dollars and a couple hours. A close second would be to pick...