Word: franticness
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...Brown's major inspirators and Brown's music is fraught with his influence. Brown's sound, however, is distinctly his own. Supported by the rich foundation of Maarten van Regteben Altena on bass and Han Bennik of drums, Brown utilizes an echoey tone that ranges from breathy whispers to frantic squeals. In 'Sound Structures', Brown explores the possibilities of the lower volume range of the saxophone in a quiet stealthy composition that is shiveringly cerie. Brown allows each tone to echo out of his instrument and then lets it fade. Most of Brown's work is at full volume though...
...pressed on him the names of 20 relatives trying to get out of the homeland. Aboard a plane from Hong Kong to Saigon, his seatmate was a Mrs. Xuan, who was attempting to get out some of her own Vietnamese relatives. She and Mills joined forces, and in a frantic two days in Saigon they rounded up 16 of her kin as well as the 20 relatives of the two students from San Francisco and five of Mills' old friends. He also took in tow a stray missionary and a student. By offering to be their sponsor, and talking...
BOLSHOI BALLET. The key to the enduring Bolshoi mystique is its magnitude: the colossal technical prowess of its dancers, their grandeur of emotion, the elaborate theatrical productions. Alas, on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera the gallant dancers often sag beneath the weighty spectacle of the frantic choreography of Director Yuri Grigorovich. Yet Giselle, the company's corner stone, abounds in fresh lyrical dancing and finely drawn characterizations. Radiant young Ludmila Semenyaka and Vyacheslav Gordeyev, a powerful classical dancer, should win fans during the Bolshoi's nine-city national tour...
Foreigners and frantic Saigonese could see their salvation in the skies as giant U.S. Air Force C-130 and C-141 cargo planes and sleek commercial jets flew endless circles over the city. Among those asking for assistance at the U.S. embassy was none other than the nephew and namesake of Pham Van Dong, the Premier of North Viet Nam. Dong was a university professor in the city. "Don't you trust your uncle? " he was asked. "No," he replied. A group of Indian haberdashers who had made a killing in the lucrative money-changing business made plans to escape...
...refugees, there are also thousands of South Vietnamese peasants who have been and will continue to be friendly to the NLF, the army of South Vietnam, which has been abandoning, looting and even killing and raping civilians seems to be creating much of the atmosphere of panic and frantic retreat in Vietnam...