Word: franticness
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...sudden withdrawal immediately prompted an angry exchange of threats between Washington and Baghdad and frantic negotiations at U.N. headquarters in New York City to seek Iraqi compliance. By week's end the U.S., Britain and other allies were careering toward another showdown with Iraq. Shore leave in the Mediterranean for crew members of the aircraft carrier Saratoga was canceled, President Bush met with top defense advisers, and officials in several Western capitals huddled to phrase an ultimatum...
...placed in a Virginia electric chair last week for the 1981 rape and murder of his sister-in-law Wanda Fay McCoy. Nearly 15,000 Americans besieged the Governor's office with calls and letters opposing the execution. In the days preceding his death, Coleman's attorneys waged a frantic attempt to gain him an appeal but were refused by two courts. Coleman himself passed these final hours pleading his case to a receptive press. (See related story on page...
...trapped in the institution of marriage. The script contains an innovative comedic twist: it is composed entirely of Freudian slips. The prissy Jane (Jane Sperling) and her luggish fiancee Dink (Ron Weiner) coo at each other about becoming "moan and woof" and their upcoming "hiney-moon" in "A Frantic City." Jane must reject her "old toy-friend" Jerry, played by the slouching, smooth-talking Brent Johnstone, as must Dink shun the advances of Pam Shores' provocative Alas, before the couple can properly appreciate "encaged" life...
...polish his conservative credentials by coming full circle on taxes and soliciting the resignation of National Endowment for the Arts Chairman John Frohnmayer after Buchanan demanded his head. Bush denied that a five-day swing through seven Southern states last week was beginning to make him appear panicked and frantic. "I've thought about that, and I've concluded it doesn't. What I want to do is look like we're not taking anything for granted." But the same day, Bush suddenly cut short his travel plans and returned to Washington, where he will stay for the better part...
...just that the numbers were wrong; it was that many of the stories read like morality tales, whispering threats about the cost of postponing marriage in favor of having a career. Fear of spinsterhood stormed into the popular culture, giving birth to a whole generation of desperate movie heroines, frantic sitcom spinsters, myriad self-help books...