Word: franticness
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...visual. The Turners' primary concern is not with trail-blazing, either, but with perfecting the art of entertainment. Their roots lie, if anywhere, in the club circuit they used to tour ten months out of every year, playing to crowds that expected an all-out effort. Straightforward, rough, and frantic, Ike and Tina and the Ikettes made their name as rhythm-and-blues stars on the stage-not in the studio. Although they were frequently heard on black radio, their exposure on white (Top Forty) radio was erratic, at least until the advent of FM "heavy" stations. Their following among...
...drifted through, the epic cross-country trip to California, the Stones-aren't too far from the standard fare. What he does manage to do is capture those peculiar historical moments and insights which drove him and his friends (Bloom's Band, they called it) first to their frantic enterprise in Washington and finally to their Thoreauvian existence in Vermont...
...Loeb actors in last year's Grotowski experiment, The Three Sisters. Grotowski's method was salient throughout the production, but it didn't add to (frequently detracted from) Chekhov's script. If animal magnetism caused the players to embrace each other at the end of the play, their frantic hugging gave the audience at least an emblem of deep feelings which, purely as artists, they were unable to make the audience share...
...accomplish this he roared into last summer's Nancy election with all the pizazz of a Kennedy seeking re-election in Massachusetts. He won with a surprisingly wide margin (55%), and tried the same techniques in Bordeaux -the frantic jetting from place to place, the restless copying machine ever churning out press releases, the coveys of attractive, midiskirted female assistants. He spoke endlessly in schools and public halls, garnering crowds of 2,000 and more-something unheard of in Bordeaux elections. As usual, he attracted hordes of newsmen complete with television lights and cameras. The sober daily Le Monde...
...What Davis offered them was more control over their own artistic expression than other companies had given them. By the time that his competitors realized what Davis was up to, Columbia-and Atlantic-Warner -had already recruited much of the top talent. Says Davis: "The other companies just got frantic and signed the wrong artists...