Word: franticness
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...President's frantic exertions since then have represented, among other things, an implicit confession of his own failures as a leader. He seems to have grasped the shortcomings of the Carter Administration as clearly as anyone, although the methods he has used to correct them have seemed at times peculiar and erratic...
...accident on his wedding day in 1929 and is defrosted in the Socialist world-state in 1979. This plot is barely intelligible in Peter Sellar's frenzied production, however. Mayakovsky's satire works mostly through verse, parody and puns--Sellars in effect obliterates all verbal content in frantic pursuit of visual pyrotechnics. Admittedly, The Bedbug demands to be staged as spectacle, but Mayakovsky also valued his words. Sellars' production reduces them to high-speed spurts of incomprehensibility...
...accident. That film's manic vitality and boundless raunchiness are painfully absent here. At its best, Meatballs rises only to the level of TV's now defunct Animal House sitcoms. Through it all, Murray smiles and forges ahead, but his big riffs have been edited down to frantic bursts of mugging. Even worse is the single attempt to capitalize on his personal warmth: an interminable subplot about the friendship between Murray and a shy camper (Chris Makepeace) is so mawkishly presented that it takes on an unintended air of homosexual romance. As Murray himself might...
...Whatever frantic doctoring occurred during / Remember Mama's arduous journey toward opening night, the patient is dead on arrival...
...says Burrows. "He doesn't point to her and say, 'You should have seen her before I worked on her.'" If a show is a smash, the original team generally gets the credit, not the doctor. So why does a successful playwright or director answer those frantic calls late at night? "You've got to make a house call," says Gelbart, who, like many play doctors, often slips medical touches into his conversation. He adds, "Any Christ complex you have rises immediately to the top." Power may in fact be the best satisfaction. Says Joe Stein...