Word: franticness
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...solemn black man walked to the microphone and jolted hundreds of tired "peace movement" people with the news: "Soledad Brother" George Jackson was killed tonight in San Quentin Prison. Brother Jackson lay dead. Frantic "oh no"'s shot through the conference room. The audience was asked to stand in silent memory of the dead man's life. The room suffered in silence. The man then suggested the "Clergy and Laymen Concerned" could best honor Jackson by continuing with the Saturday night agenda--the establishment of national priorities for the coming year. The men and women participants in the final plenary...
...more time. But Dade County still had more than 5,000 cases to dispose of and the time limit now has run out for all those who were awaiting trial when the new rules went into effect. Right up to the deadline, prosecutors and judges were engaging in a frantic binge of plea bargaining-allowing defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges to avoid the time and expense of trials. There simply was no way to try everyone. Overcrowded Florida court calendars may now be a problem of the past. Still, the state's confusion-ridden changeover should serve...
Aint is a jumbled-up, quasi-Brechtian Harlem re-do of Elmer Rice's Street Scene. Manhattan has grown seedier, in or out of Harlem, since Rice wrote. The people talk tougher now, and are more frantic, more terribly frustrated...
...French Connection is a knockout police thriller with so much jarring excitement that it almost calls for comic-book expletives. POW!, ZOWIE! The film has all the depth of a mud puddle, but Director William Friedkin (The Night They Raided Minsky's) sets such a frantic pace that there is hardly a chance to notice, much less care. The connection is a French businessman (Fernando Rey) who arrives in New York City with a multimillion-dollar shipment of high-grade heroin stashed underneath a car door. By dumb luck, a couple of tough narcs get onto the deal...
...interval between Perry's failure and success was unbelievably frantic. In less than three minutes, the two teams ran 20 plays, turned over the ball five times, and gave up two interceptions...