Word: franticness
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...signal barrier. Suddenly, like Ray Bolger bouncing onstage for a final bow, he is there before me, has waved hello, left three sentences hanging on the air like a vapor trail from a Boeing 707, and is breezing back inside before I even hear him : "It's-just-frantic-around-here-I've-been -on -the -phone - all-morning-now -I'm-talking-to-Melina-Mercouri...
...Rock Hudson but remaining a freckle-faced iron maiden to the fadeout. In this picture, she is equipped with a husband (Patrick O'Neal), but by pouting continually, she keeps him at arm's length. Morse, drugged on her sleeping potion, never gets to make anything but frantic motions. Thus if she is no longer precisely virginal, she remains constant...
...candidates' increasingly frantic supplication of supposedly convinced delegates suggests that quite a few of those 4,322 minds may be open. In this volatile political year, which has been rife with surprises, which has produced widespread grumbling about preordained choices but presents little visible evidence of bossism at work the delegates may conceivably be more independent than ever...
Married. Jayne Harries, 16, Britain's runaway of the year and heiress to a London banking fortune; and Gavin Hodge, 23, a mod hairdresser she met at a party last April; on Gibraltar. No stranger to the headlines, Jayne had newsmen and her frantic parents chasing her two weeks ago when she and Gavin eloped to Europe. But the folks finally gave in when they found that the kids were really that way about each other...
...these two improbable people finally get together is a clear case of Blackmail. Ivy, hankering for more out of life, decides to leave her "family." The lady of the house gets frantic at the prospect of losing her maid, tells her to "call me Doris like my friends," and offers to give her a vacation: "We'll send you anyplace you want to go. Ah ... Africa...