Word: franticness
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...last the three years of secret diplomacy, the seven months of public anticipation, and the frantic final hours of official preparation were over. The doors had swung open on a new policy of dialogue between China and the U.S., two world powers that had refused to talk to each other for nearly 25 years. Despite the President's repeated comparison of his trip to the Apollo 11 flight, Peking is too much a part of this world to be the moon, and a presidential jet is far safer and more comfortable than a space capsule. Yet this...
...used it for a clandestine rendezvous. Next comes a series of further strange deaths among the medical staff. The hospital is in a flurry, the demonstrators are chanting outside, the slimy capitalist is trying to cull support for his encounter with the hospital director, the director is going frantic trying to stave off the demonstrators. Meanwhile patients are mislaid, the bookkeeper harasses a dying man to get his Blue Shield number, and Scott and Rigg are carrying on their own private tug-of-war over whether to stay or go to Mexico, she dressed in a nurse's uniform because...
Richard Nixon could attend to his job as President and cut out those frantic jet hops from city to city in the days before the election. They are a dubious form of political evangelism, costing millions of dollars, exhausting President and people alike. They may even be harmful politically. So many major stops are jammed into a day, and a President repeats himself like any other candidate. The merciless and omnipresent eyes and ears of TV often show him at day's end as a repetitive bore...
...only deserved. Of all the nations in the world, Japan, a faithful U.S. ally, was hardest hit by the dramatic American policy reversals regarding China and international finance. Relations between the U.S. and Japan had deteriorated to such an extent that the State Department made frantic preparations for the meeting. Up to the last minute, experts were scrutinizing embassy reports from Tokyo, preparing papers and debating issues. Telephone lines between Washington and San Clemente hummed constantly...
...Tchaikovsky Mozartiana that completed the program is an unusual work, most notable in the final Theme and Variations movement. The lighter moments were many: a strings-celeste variation that sounded like bad ballet music, a jazz-like clarinet cadenza, and some frantic runs for the strings leading perfectly to the mock ending. Robert Portney's playing was dazzling in the solo violin variations...