Word: franticness
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...audience is uncertain, publishers are downright frantic. Only yesterday they could count on six-and seven-figure sales to paperback houses and thereby raise needed operating capital, fund new ventures and enrich writers' wallets. But Fat City is rapidly becoming as legendary as the Land of Oz. According to New York Publishing Consultant Leonard Shatzkin, author of the forthcoming analysis of U.S. publishing, In Cold Type, the times get leaner by the month: 1977 paperback-reprint rights, for example, "contributed approximately 60% of total subsidiary-rights income to publishers. That went down...
What was uncorked was more than a dislike for Small, more than a resentment of interlopers from his old network. It was an edgy tension that pervades the highly competitive TV-news business in a time of change and uncertainty. The frantic mood has affected not only NBC journalists but their counterparts at CBS and ABC as well. On the day that Small resigned, CBS News President William Leonard, 65, had just finished cleaning out his desk to make way for the newly appointed Van Gordon Sauter, 46. The management shake-ups at both networks were part...
With us, he showed respect when he didn't really have to and treated us like people, not servants. Before games M.L. would take on the twins in frantic games of two-on-one--frantic for us anyway. We scrambled all around his 6-ft. 6-in. body, trying to steal the ball, or at least touch it, as he held it far above out heads and laughed...
...commander of the Army's Hawaiian department, had a field day blaming each other and Washington for unpreparedness, but since all were culpable, there was no real art in the show. The same fandango is going on in Spain these days, with the generals on trial for treason frantic to pin last year's failed coup on each other. The buck may also be passed to superiors, as Nuremburg made clear. The first buck pass was Adam to Eve to snake, who, while superior to the unhappy couple, was unable to pass the buck elsewhere. Since the snake...
...After a frantic hour-and-a-half flurry of phone calls, at 8:15 a.m. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Hassan El Zayyat, in New York for the U.N. meeting, called and claimed Israeli units had attacked Egyptian positions in the Gulf of Suez. Fourteen minutes later the Israeli embassy in Washington called to report that Egyptian and Syrian planes had been attacking along all fronts for the past half hour. The attack began at approximately 2 p.m. Middle East time, or 8 a.m. Washington time...