Word: franticness
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...FEEL THAT WAY? I THINK THAT'S GENUINELY HOW YOU FEEL. I don't buy into doom scenarios. I've lived through all that, living under the shadow of the A-bomb and the H-bomb, without getting discouraged or hopeless or frantic. It might just be a kind of mindless optimism, sort of more genetic than thought controlled. I do tend to trust this country to come up with the right answers eventually. And I tend to trust the people in government, even though I didn't vote for them. So in that way, I'm not a pessimist...
...Thief, Witchcraft and White Unicorn ("With the white unicorn across her shoulder/ Makes you think that she might have been someone who's older") that are no less fun for being totally incomprehensible. What raises their unironic embrace of classic-rock clich above the bar of mere cuteness is frantic musicianship and the crisp wail of singer Andrew Stockdale...
...cynical repartee in Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 comedy The Front Page zipped like the Super-Chief through a plot of political and journalistic malfeasance. When director Howard Hawks in 1940 changed ace reporter Hildy Johnson from man to woman, the story was also about another frantic combat: marriage. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the sparring partners in the fastest, nastiest farce Hollywood has ever made...
...ground to make a push for second place. The Crimson, however, turned Saturday morning into a time trial against itself.“It’s obviously nice when you get up early on a crew, because you can focus on getting away from them and not getting frantic,” Medioli said. “But you have to push really hard in the beginning to have that luxury.”The Harvard heavyweights pushed through the line uncontested in a time of 6:08.9, with the Navy and Penn boats still jockeying for second place...
...Jackiw seized the stage for himself.Jackiw has the tremendous ability to skip about the violin and draw every note out of it without compromising its tone, and his performance of Brahms’s iconic violin piece was no exception. With a fine ability to draw out tense, almost frantic chords and runs from his violin, Jackiw’s body became just as important as his arms.The more-meditative second movement gave him the opportunity to integrate more with the rest of the orchestra, smoothing out the soloist-orchestra division that had dominated the first movement. Yannatos...