Word: franticness
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...Side last winter, when Dan Voll, a former Yale undergraduate just 13 days short of his 21st birthday, was suddenly seized and muscled into a waiting car (TIME, March 12). The abductors were Voll's father Eugene, his mother Marie, and Ted Patrick. Summoned by Voll's frantic cries for help, police stopped the car before it had gone two blocks and freed the young man, who suffered a dislocated finger in the struggle...
...Frantic Pace. This unexpected turn threw a kink into White's narrative that no amount of last-minute revision could disguise. White had originally allocated only ten pages to Watergate (in a book of nearly 400), prudently holding four more in reserve for postelection developments. The string of Watergate explosions in March and April rendered that plan thoroughly inoperative and forced White into a frantic race against future disclosures and the clock...
...frantic competition for small deposits, banks and S and Ls are introducing higher-yielding varieties of $1,000, four-year CDs almost daily and touting them in blaring bold-headlined newspaper ads and breathless radio commercials. Last week these CDs generally paid 7½% annual interest, but many banks raised the effective return to 7.79% by compounding interest daily. Manhattan's Union Dime Savings Bank advertised $1,000 CDs at 8¼%; daily compounding raises the effective rate to a towering...
APPLIED TO THE SCENE at Las Vegas, gonzo journalism yields no explicit moral evaluations. It gives, rather, a detailed description of the desperate mood and frantic action epitomized by crowds surrounding the crap tables, "still humping the American Dream, that vision of the Big Winner somehow emerging from the last-minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino...
...grace of both performances summons such fond memories, not only makes such comparisons inevitable, but sustains them. When Vicki and Steve make love, they are usually as raucous as they are tender; when they fight, storm warnings are posted. One frantic free-for-all is prompted by Steve's eagerness to have his prowess appraised. "Did the earth move for you?" he inquires (they are in Spain, after all). "It was very nice," Vicki sniffs, sounding a little as if she were recalling the funeral of a distant relative...