Word: franticness
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Wall Street was in a panic today, with no one to guide it out . . . Selling was at a furious pace . . . News to noonday had been quite cheerful, but it was not sufficiently encouraging to stem the tide of frantic selling, which came from all parts of the world, from rich and poor alike . . . The demoralization of the market was complete . . . Many speculators lost all their money . . . The senior partner of a leading exchange house described the situation as "pitiable." Brokers had weeping women in their offices, and in some instances weeping...
...semifinal match between Steffi Graf and Lori McNeil was still on the network at 6:30, Rather unclipped his microphone and left the set to call Stringer again. Moments later the match ended, and the network switched from New York to Miami for Rather's show. For six frantic minutes, more than 100 CBS stations that carry the 6:30 broadcast scrambled to fill the time until Rather could be located and hustled back to his desk...
...parents know, a birthday party for a five-year-old is usually marked by wild noise, frantic rushing about and manic exuberance. Even so, there have been few such events as boisterous as the one on Wall Street last week. Growing at a pace that once would have seemed impossible, the bull market that was born five years ago last Thursday showed off its muscles by rampaging past one historic high in stock prices after another...
...society figure. Renek never whitewashes the Boss, but he adds another dimension to the celebrated Thomas Nast drawings of Tweed as a vulture, a bloated moneybag and Falstaff. En route the author vigorously and accurately portrays his real hero: the city, with its teeming and angry slums, frantic mix of ethnic groups, riots, underworld schemers and high-level scandals, demonstrating that in New York, the more things change, the more they are the shame...
...performances are in perfect high pitch. Cher and her screen sisters all catch the edge of flinty, frantic resilience; these three could bewitch any prospective devil. There are nifty turns from Veronica Cartwright (as the local prude) and Helen Lloyd Breed (as a sprightly oldster). Then there's Nicholson. Well! He might have been rehearsing for this role ever since The Shining. If he was over the top there, he is stratospheric here. He is a beast on two legs, grunting, slavering, pawing anyone, and never mind the scratches. Does Jack stink like Daryl? No, he is gloriously rank. Sulfuric...