Word: franticness
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...music to co-exist on each of the album’s tracks. Social warrior though he may be, Wyclef can’t quite make it happen. His poignant frustration with the state of the world leads to touching insight at times, but it gets lost in the frantic cultural sampling of “Memoirs.” Wyclef told New York Magazine this fall that he sees the disc as something of a magnum opus. “This album means so much to me—it’s like Bob Marley?...
Bennett doesn't sweat the small stuff, like missing a kindergarten stage debut. "A lot of mothers are frantic because they don't want to miss a thing," she says. "I get to do everything six times. And you know, those musical revues can get a little...
...overjoyed” when she heard the news on Monday. “I am so excited to live in England—to experience a new culture and a different atmosphere,” she said. Galbreth, who studies French literature and linguistics, recounted the frantic moments before discovering that she had won the scholarship. “My computer froze right when I tried to open the attachment,” she said. “I had to run to my roommate’s computer to read the message. The whole process took about 10 minutes...
...unforgiving North Sea near the industrial port of Hartlepool in northeastern England. He never returned home. In short order, an oar from Darwin's kayak washed up on a local beach. A search team of lifeboats, a Royal Navy ship and a Royal Air Force helicopter mobilized for a frantic, 16-hour search. His yellow life vest was found, but no trace of Darwin was discovered. When the splintered remains of his tiny vessel drifted ashore six weeks later, he was presumed drowned...
...John H. Harbison ’60. The piece’s jaunty clarinet, saxophone, and piano parts deftly conveyed the cool, foot-tapping breeziness of 1920s ragtime. Its dark, clashing passages poignantly evoked the troubles of Gatsby’s life, as did the lively, often frantic melodies that suggested Gatsby’s extravagant dance parties...