Word: franticness
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...ritual begins with a swift mutual thrust of converging palms, which grasp each other in a crushing grip and pump each other up and down like a frantic seesaw. It is accompanied by a snappy bowing of the head-almost as if to show that the participants have not paralyzed each other. It is, of course, the German handshake, a social act of such importance and frequency that it sometimes seems to dominate German life. More than any other people, the Germans firmly believe that a man's handshake shows his character, and they go through life grasping...
...frantic hero (Michael Crawford) is the kind of artist who fashions metallic sculptures that look as if they were conceived during a tin famine. Engaged to a very U deb (Lynn Redgrave), he is about to meet her very pukka sahib army colonel father (Peter Bull). Also expected is a millionaire art fancier with a notorious avidity for avant-garde junk. To impress the guests, Crawford and Redgrave have carted off the sculptor's jackdaw furniture and replaced it with elegant antiques "borrowed" from the neighboring apartment of an exquisitely gay bachelor (Donald Madden) supposedly away for the weekend...
Trading, merely hectic last year, has turned almost frantic. So far this year, market volume has averaged 9,900,000 shares a day v. last year's record daily average of 7,500,000 shares. In all, volume has reached 10 million shares on no fewer than 18 of the year's 29 trading days...
...bench, he had made a practice of appointing relatives and close friends as appraisers. Out of a $37,575,282 estate left by a Procter & Gamble heiress, two of Judge Davies' friends had each received a $37,575 fee. Upset by the publicity, the probate judge paid two frantic calls on Editor Thornburg to try to persuade him that he was a man of probity. Said Thornburg in an editorial: "The best you can say is that the judge runs a slovenly court." Davies responded by announcing that he was cutting appraisal fees and not appointing any more friends...
Robert Drew culled one hour from the staggering total of 55 he had shot, managed to catch the frantic, discombobulated rehearsals of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra; the suave calm of Met General Manager Rudolf Bing; the comic pathos of Soprano Leontyne Price as she got trapped in a prop pyramid before 3,800 people at dress rehearsal; the triumph of opening night, and the quietly joyous reunion of Price with her parents backstage afterward, in which she told her father that there was champagne in the icebox and please to leave her some. The camera even...