Word: franticness
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John Karmelich is on the WELL, just three hours after the quake. The phone lines left standing now are overloaded with calls from frantic friends and relatives in other parts of the country, most unable to get through. The exceptions are those on computer bulletin boards like the WELL, which can be accessed through local numbers. Karmelich, whose log-on is "Morngman," lives in northwest Orange County. To thousands of fellow hackers, he reports, "Shakin' all over, but basically everything...
...effort to move to a market economy has been its roaring inflation. The main cause of that has been the Russian central bank's penchant for handing out subsidies and loans to bankrupt factories and state farms by printing billions of rubles, speeding the destruction of the national currency. Frantic Russians last week rushed to buy hard currency, driving down the ruble 15%, to almost 2,000 for one dollar, before it rebounded. At the end of 1992, the exchange rate was around 500 to the dollar...
Ives is a wondrous wordmaster and, as spiffily directed by Jason McConnell / Buzas, these elfin works could be called Stoppard Lite. But they are really Beckett Brisk, for they are about the creative process, frantic and forlorn, of getting through life. They suggest that all human existence is an improvisatory rehearsal for some grand opening night that may never arrive. Panic is the universal language. And yet, as Ives shows, rewriting life can produce a happy ending. Destiny may be, as his Trotsky says, "only a capitalist explanation for the status quo," but it can also be a sure thing...
...Degrees" works extremely well on the screen because it has a highly fast-paced rhythm which is in many ways better suited to it than to the stage. The frantic emergence of the actors from the Lincoln Center audience not only circumvented slow entrances and exits but added sheer exuberance. However, by fully embracing the possibilities of the new medium, cutting swiftly between different shots and merging the narration and flashbacks in rapid succession, Schepisi gives the work an even more natural celerity...
Morrison found working at a weekly magazine to be a little frantic compared with the biweekly FORTUNE, but also terrifically stimulating. "You have to react to constantly shifting news, but you still have to provide plenty of analysis," she says. Fortunately, one thing was familiar: the names, if not the faces, of her temporary co-workers. Morrison's husband Donald was at TIME for years (he's now an assistant managing editor at ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and, coincidentally, Ann's current stand-in at FORTUNE). Good things rarely last forever, though, and so next week she will be heading back, while...