Word: franticness
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What keeps Jaramillo going, he feels, is the letters that his girl, Lydia Terrazas, writes almost daily. Frantic with concern for his safety, she writes him: "Artie, you have so much to come home to, please don't be foolish, come home to me." Jaramillo saves the letters in an old ammunition case, reads them as many as 25 times, then burns them because he knows he has more coming. They provide a link with the "real world." Like most G.I.s, Jaramillo also strings good-luck medals around his neck -including, in his case, one blessed by the Pope...
Silence. Martin, frantic, decided to change the subject...
...scared and told Martin that he was going to sleep in Dave's room "because you're blowing your goddamned mind, you freak," but Martin didn't even hear him. He was completely absorbed in his hallucinations, which kept getting more and more intense, and more and more frantic. Somethings was going to happen very soon now, and Martin didn't want to miss it. Soon he had to grip the chair to keep from being thrown out, everything was going around so fast. But he tried to keep his eyes on the phone, and finally, as he watched...
...ASSASSINATION BUREAU. Looking for something to take the family to on a rainy Saturday afternoon? This is it. The kids will love all the improbable derring-do, and parents may find themselves getting an occasional laugh out of all the frantic proceedings...
VERY FEW rock groups, and even fewer American ones, manage to make music that is not only complex in its musical structure but at the same time retains the visceral, frantic dynamism that one associates with true rock&roll. The Bead Game is one of the finest rock-groups in he country precisely because its music is just such an extraordinary synthesis of complexity and dynamics...