Word: franticness
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...maybe people simply want to know that other people are around. Not that one really doubts it, there being such constant frantic evidence that people are around. Only why does it feel so still sometimes? And why are we, in our lucky normality, able to know something of the desperation of the Jersey mother, standing by the river emptyhanded? The day opens and closes with the reassuring noises of the species, and we seem taken with the news that we are here. -By Roger Rosenblatt
...situation was distressingly familiar. The 98th Congress had dithered for months over its most basic responsibility: funding the vast operations of the Federal Government. Now it was in a frantic haste to adjourn. In a sudden spasm of activity, it fell all too short of meeting its self-imposed spending and revenue limits. Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, pronounced a scathing verdict on the legislators' performance. "As we leave Washington," he predicted, "word of our impotence will precede us. We have put special interests on notice that we can be pushed around...
Several experts argue that the frantic pace of gulf development would have slowed even without the current recession. "We were saturated with buildings and offices," says Riyadh's Toaimi. Adds a banker whose firm has helped finance Saudi projects: "Construction will never see a boom like the one we had here in the ten years since 1973." That, in the view of many Arabs, is probably for the best. "We did not have time to think about what we were doing," concedes Yousef Shirawi, Bahrain's Minister of Development and Industry: "Perhaps this pause will be very good...
...Trio has been compared to the Ramones as "rock and roll naturalists," possibly because both groups combine silly, repetitive lyrics with strong, hooky rhythms. Otherwise, however, the Ramones and Trio are styles apart, for the Ramones are true rock purists. At their best, the Ramones create music with that Frantic energy: energy that keeps the listener excited so that the repetitions don't count, and lyrics that blend into the strong feel of the music. Trio however ever lacks this vibrant energy; and that's why instead of burning out, they just fade away...
...talks, and has talks. Wingrove's blocking is deft: Serge travels an a small circle around his bed, center stage, and is able to enter the houses and lives of each of his relatives with one single step towards their particular corner of the stage. His jerky, frantic movements contrast markedly with the immobility of the others...