Word: franticness
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...corporate giant based entirely on the purchasing power of youth. "We find ourselves in situations similar to Carnegie and Sloan," Randell intoned. With the old-line firm of Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath managing the underwriting syndicate, N.S.M. went public in 1968 at $6 a share. In two years of frantic stock swapping and cash deals, Randell acquired 27 companies (a student-insurance concern, a poster maker, the publishers of Europe on $5 a Day). N.S.M. sales reached $68 million last year...
Making the movie was an enormous and sometimes haphazard undertaking. Director-Cinematographer Michael Wadleigh organized a 25-man crew on only a few days' notice, shot over 120 hours of footage, then edited it all down in a frantic seven months. It is no small tribute to Wadleigh's dexterity that the film's three-hour running time passes with the mesmerizing speed of a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo. There could comfortably be even more. Using such intricate optical effects as split screen, overlapping and double framing, Wadleigh has expanded and enriched the original musical performances...
...hooked lemmings will drown themselves in spite of all our frantic efforts to save them, thus canceling some of the population explosion, while the other 50%, "squares" too smart to kill themselves on dope, will survive to run the country...
...financial trouble and the top officers of the New York Stock Exchange are desperately asking Washington for emergency help. Nobody expects a repeat of the classic 19th century panics, when brokerage houses went under in domino fashion, trading was suspended on the Exchange and Wall Street was crowded with frantic depositors trying to get their money from failing banks. But if the situation gets much worse, it could hurt some investors, scare others and provoke selling that would drive stock prices still lower...
...Then comes a "high," which may last for several hours, a lethargic, withdrawn state in which the addict nods drowsily, without appetite for food, companionship, sex?or life. Heroin, says one addict bitterly, "has all the advantages of death, without its permanence." After the high ends, there is the frantic scramble for a new supply in order to shoot up once again, to escape one more time into compulsive oblivion. As the junkie develops tolerance for the drug, he must use ever increasing amounts to reach the same high?thus the price of a habit can run as high...