Word: franticness
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MARY BAUERMEISTER - Bonino, 7 West 57th. In the forefront of the frantic search for new materials, a young German artist creates sensuous surfaces with polished pebbles, drinking straws, hollow shells, wood. She proves with "linen sculptures" that look like modern abstractions of Grandma's old quiltwork that she can sew - and prettily, too. Through April...
Fortnight ago, the day before he was scheduled to return to Moscow, Nosenko told colleagues he was going off for lunch at a downtown restaurant. When he failed to return next morning, frantic Soviet officials ordered all the remaining Russians at the hotel into a delegation compound and stripped Nosenko's room of all his personal effects. They seemed particularly agitated when they could not find his valise. At last, the Russians called in the Swiss police. In vain, the cops checked Switzerland's hospitals, morgues, hotels, railroad stations, airports and border outposts. Nosenko had totally vanished...
...engagements with two horrid girls who hold no appeal for him. Prissy Barbara, a vacuous townie whose jaw drops when he puts his hand on her knee, and Rita, a shrew with large breasts and a gelding tongue, are constantly on the point of finding Billy out. Hopping in frantic secrecy between these charmers keeps his nights occupied--but offers no more satisfaction than his job, or bumbling duplicities...
...know? Simple. Bruno has a sidekick during two frantic days, a callow, sallow law student named Roberto, so shy he won't call for help when accidentally locked in a public bathroom. The Playboy asks the Law student, "Why not throw yourself into life," and the Law Student cleverly counters, "I worry where I'm going to fall." The Playboy mutters to us all, "You're right, I'm the fool." Clunk...
...Only frantic, eleventh-hour activity by the President-and the cooperation of Chairman Byrd-prevented the bill from emerging in a form that would have endangered its prospects of quick Senate approval. Committee Republicans were angered when Louisiana Democrat Russell Long rammed through an amendment that cut some $30 million off a proposed $80 million increase in taxes on oil companies. They retaliated by passing amendments to repeal some $445 million in excise taxes on luggage, jewelry, cosmetics and furs...