Word: franticness
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Without preamble, the three-piece band cuts loose. In the spotlight, the lanky singer flails furious rhythms on his guitar, every now and then breaking a string. In a pivoting stance, his hips swing sensuously from side to side and his entire body takes on a frantic quiver, as if he had swallowed a jackhammer. Full-cut hair tousles over his forehead, and sideburns frame his petulant, full-lipped face. His style is partly hillbilly, partly socking rock 'n' roll. His loud baritone goes raw and whining in the high notes, but down low it is rich...
...indication of the booters' control, Harvard scored in bunches, scoring and then striking again while Brandeis was a little to frantic to equalize...
...frantic search with another fishing boat and a Coast Guard launch and helicopter turned up not a trace. Rignola and Farriel were left to break the news to Bob's wife and their two children, Lisa and Eric, then...
...novel, Judith Rossner (Looking for Mr. Goodbar) returns to a favorite theme: the frantic search for emotional connection. The New York City landscape of August is littered with suicides, failed marriages, estranged children and an assortment of ambivalent sexual identities. The one successful relationship is built between two women: Dawn Henley, 18 at the outset, an orphaned college student, and Dr. Lulu Shinefeld, her fortyish psychoanalyst. In classic Freudian fashion, the patient seeks a surrogate parent. The analyst, a divorcee and failed mother, comes to view her patient as a surrogate daughter. Each woman uses the analytic relationship to relive...
...noticed it as a sharp rise in the din outside his office. Traders at the International Monetary Market in Chicago responded to it with arm waving and raucous bids. In financial offices around the world, tensions rose as the news flashed across video screens and was relayed in frantic telephone deals: the price of the U.S. dollar was surging to record levels. The dollar fetched 8.06 French francs at the start of the week, the highest rate in more than 60 years, and also commanded 2.68 deutsche marks, a nine-year high. "The dollar's bandwagon was rolling...