Word: franticness
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...what seemed the frantic secularism of the '60s, God's obituary was regularly published. But even then, God was never in extremis. According to a Gallup poll, which was examined last week by both clerics and politicians. Americans today display an extraordinary degree of religious faith-the highest among industrialized nations in the world. An overwhelming 94% of Americans say they believe in God, and 69% believe in life after death. Meanwhile, other advanced nations-notably Japan, France, West Germany and the Scandinavian countries-are rapidly growing more skeptical...
Worse yet, Mondale disliked the whole frantic hoopla of running for the presidency and the business of asking people to give him money. Confessed Carter: "I had a slight feeling of resentment that I had worked hard, and he had not." (There was some irony in Carter's choosing the dropout over men like Jackson and Church, who had fought hard in the primaries.) But the Georgian was persuaded by Mondale's explanation that he had simply assessed his campaign realistically and concluded it was going nowhere...
Notable Laggards. Most experts still do not foresee a repetition of the commodity price explosion of 1973-74. Then, the economies of major industrial states were all booming at the same time. Today the recovery is sufficiently uneven-Britain and Italy are notable laggards-to prevent the kind of frantic scramble for raw materials that went on three years ago. In addition, many commodity producers are still operating well below capacity and have room to expand output to fill demand. For example, production in copper-mining countries has been running about 15% below normal levels for more than a year...
...everyone I talk to seems to feel we are headed for strangeness of one sort or another.") Thompson is at first judicious about this strangeness ("The evidence points both ways"), but not for long: "Jesus Christ! I'm not sure I can handle this kind of news and frantic stimulus at four o'clock in the morning-especially with a head full of speed, booze and Percodan...
...real quest of both sets of thieves is for some spark of genuine humor amid all these outrageous contrivances. The screenplay is little help. It keeps turning up yokel lines like, "Paris - that's near Europe and Asia." Caan and Gould fall back on a series of frantic semaphores to the audience, calling attention to how adorably prankish they are being. Director Mark Rydell's notion of how to give shape to a scene apparently is to make it louder and faster. This does produce an occasional laugh, just as somebody pounding a piano with a baseball...