Word: franticness
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Journalists tend to think of the world of The Front Page as a kind of Garden of Eden, an unspoiled idyll of frantic competition and luxuriant dissipation in an era when reporters worried about the price of a shot and a beer, not the tax consequences of a vacation home and an individual retirement account. In the mind's eye, the rowdy tabloid reportage of Chicago in the Roaring Twenties seems vivid, creative and a whole lot more fun than today's sober pursuit of facts and reasoned analysis. But 58 years of interpretation, including three film versions, may have...
Boesky (pronounced Bo-ski) was terribly good indeed, thanks to frantic 20-hour workdays, obsessive research and a natural trader's ability to talk on several telephones at once. It was as if he had stored up millions of kilocalories of energy during his aimless years and was now unleashing them on an unwary Wall Street. "Boesky did not really need to cheat," observes Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens. And yet he did. His relentless drive to get an edge appears to have pushed him right over it. Boesky seemed to expect something like that might happen...
...Producer charges into the production trailer, frantic about the day's news: we are two days behind schedule. Or, as the Producer is quick to point out, we are $80,000 over budget. A meeting is called. Heads will surely roll...
...fire at Kendall Square Station, which is situated between Harvard Square Station and Boston, affected many Harvard Square commuters. While most passengers said they were resigned to wait out the delay, one frantic baseball fan said, "I've never had to wait like this before. I've been here for 45 minutes, and I have to be at Fenway Park...
...Harvard coach said the partisan home crowd played a significant role in the outcome of the contest. The Big Green throng grew larger and louder in the second half after a JV football game ended nearby. "It made the game frantic," Scalise said. "Dartmouth got into a frenzy--we were a step behind...