Word: franticness
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...customers snapped up 60 pairs of $57 Martini Osvaldo metallic sandals in a single day. Says Magnin Buyer Laura Rosenthal: "I've never seen anything come close to that record-not even when go-go boots were in." At Saks in Chicago, the gold rush has been similarly frantic. Says General Manager Marvin Cooper: "We haven't pulled the metallics together in one department yet, because we can't keep them in stock long enough...
...feeling the old butterflies." Or about Designer Bruce Oldfield, turning out dresses for several prominent guests, who dithers: "It's a nightmare. It's great. It's fantastic." Or Kiri Te Kanawa, who says simply that she is "terrified." The frantic pace, the giddy nerves, the spiraling expectation that threatens to run away and never quite does: all of it comes down to one thing. It is an understandable preopening stage fright for what will be, for one day and one day only, the greatest show on earth...
...weeks ago, Conoco revealed that Du Pont was its choice as a partner. After five days of frantic negotiations capped by a midnight meeting on July 5 between Conoco Chairman Ralph Bailey and Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson, the two companies agreed to merge. Jefferson offered $7.3 billion, or an average price of $84.20 per Conoco share. The deal seemed to save Conoco from an unwelcome takeover bid from Canada's Seagram, which had offered $73 per share for about 41% of the oil company's stock. Conoco had also spurned an $85-per-share bid from Texaco...
...high comedy. The two detectives are something of the classically mismatched partners. Pablo is a prissy fussbudget, a wheezy bureaucrat. Clemenson flounces through the role in grand style, with his nervous gestures and his half-exhausted grandiosity (he tires before he can really come through). His gestures become more frantic, his reasoning more strident as he is the antithesis of Louis, who prides himself on his logic and dispassionate aloofness, and his slightly cynical humor. The two wander around the outline on the apartment floor, the play delves into the absurd and it is full of discordant, funny bits...
...missed opportunities seem obvious when, for example, he bungles the easy juxtaposition of monotheism and black magic in a flurry of cliches and char-broiled priests. Risking very little, Robbins lets his movie get bogged down in Middle Ages muck, where it is continually trampled by hordes of frantic peasants and finally burled under the rotting carcass of old fire-breath himself...