Word: franticness
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While Bhopal was full of frantic activity, an air of funereal quiet hung over Union Carbide's sprawling headquarters in Danbury, Conn. Flags were flying at half-mast; Christmas parties had been canceled. "Nobody is feeling very festive around here," said a company official. Indeed, the survivors of the tragedy and those being accused of responsibility for it were distinctly hard pressed last week. Both groups remained haunted by the prospect of delayed repercussions: the 200,000 residents of Bhopal who had inhaled the gas faced lingering fears and possible long-term medical effects, while Union Carbide...
...example, when Dixie goes to pay off his brother Vince, who is holding one of Dixie's pals for a ransom, he hands his sweaty and frantic brother the money and advises him to get out of town. Coppola captures the tension between brothers on divergent paths and their strong, steady love...
...second stanza was a carbon copy of the first, with Harvard unable to solve the Maine press. The hosts' margin hovered around 20 for much of the final period, until a frantic flurry of fouls by the Crimson in the last five minutes propelled Maine to its final lead...
Saving the good wine for last, however, Serban offers as an appetizer to the evening's feast "A Gozzi Surprise," The Love of Three Oranges. A condensed adaptation of the Prokofiev-Gozzi opera of the same name, it is a frantic farce, of unparalleled foolishness, concerning a hypochondriacal prince who will die unless he laughs. In the course of the show, the prince is stranded in a desert with three oranges that turn into three beautiful, but thirsty, maidens. An audience must be snatched up into the realm of such nonsense, but the "Gozzi Surprise," despite the comical efforts...
...with Reagan last week in the Oval Office for an exclusive interview, and Barrett and Brew interviewed the President again on Election Day, when he knew his victory was assured (see page 52). On the road with Mondale were Correspondents Sam Allis and Jack White. Said Allis of the frantic finish: "Mondale's pace since the debates has been brutal. We arrive and leave our hotels in the dark, stops are added to the schedule at the last minute. Sometimes I feel as if I have been on Guadalcanal for a year...