Word: franticness
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...forces headquarters in Verona, with the title of Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics and Administration Four men dressed as plumbers knocked on his apartment door, clubbed him over the head and carried him off after binding his wife Judith, 47, with chains and tape. By the time her frantic banging against floors and walls aroused neighbors, the kidnapers had a four-hour lead. By week's end police had found no trace of Dozier. Indeed, they have found none of the hideouts used in half a dozen kidnapings during the past three years by the brutally efficient Brigades...
...attack his novels, calling his characters "parasites living off the healthy Austrian tradition, not their own marrow." Bruno remembers: "We couldn't even argue that the articles were written by an anti-Semite. The critic, as his name showed, was a Jew." The maligned author grows ever more frantic and tries to become more Austrian than his growing band of tormentors: "Jewish entrepreneurs should be wiped off the face of the earth, they ruin everything they touch! ... I hate the Jewish petite bourgeoisie." Eventually, he abandons his wife and son and flees to Vienna. Inevitably, Bruno and his mother...
DISTURBING AS THIS TYPE of repulsion may be, it evidences a frantic, self-conscious energy that produces most of Bedlam's best and worst aspects. Tension shows up in the jerky diction of the first stories, "Over 4000 Square Miles" and "The Return," which bristle with the odd, awkwardly-placed "nevertheless" and "moreover" and sentences like. "At last Rucker understood that all the sensations of his long experience had this night joined together in a motiveless musical triumph that was almost violent." In such over-intense passages, one conjures up Domini teetering on chair-edge, biting his nails...
...stood on a chair, knotted one sleeve of an Army field jacket around his neck and the other to an iron window bar and, as U.S. marshals shouted at him and struggled vainly to open the door, stepped off the chair. Hinckley, 26, hung for several minutes before a frantic marshal could climb an exterior wall and reach through a window to cut him loose from outside. For the next half-hour Hinckley lay on his cell floor, blue-faced and convulsive for lack of oxygen, before firemen using a hydraulic bolt cutter could get through the cell...
Less and less able to cope, Willy has taken to working in his "garden," a tiny patch of dirt behind his house in choking Brooklyn in the middle of the night. He is trying to plant something, he yells up to his frantic wife and angry, embarrassed sons; he wants to rid himself of the "kind of temporary feeling" he has about his life. Wheeler handles the symbolism of this scene very well, blacking out the otherwise ever-present kitchen set and using subtle filters in the lighting to create a dreamlike effect...