Word: franticness
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...Journal's race to keep up: "When a toad puffs to impress, she pays the penalty. When a magazine puffs to impress, it's the advertiser who pays." That moral was guaranteed by Good Housekeeping to make the battle of the slick-paper ladies even more frantic...
...long Polish tradition of abstract art, some of whose practitioners date their conversions back to the days of early cubism and Russian constructivism. Even six years of Nazi occupation failed to eradicate it; a 1945 victory exhibition in Cracow abounded in fantastic expressionist and nonobjective canvases. Though this first frantic flowering was followed by a wintery decade of tough Stalinist socialist realism, Polish painters worked in secret. "For the mass of the people, the stumbling block between themselves and the regime was their Catholicism," a recent U.S. visitor noted. "For the intellectual, it was abstract...
...when his air supply ran out. Trucking his sphere to the Niagara River, Boya launched it into the current, climbed aboard and floated off. Niagara Parks Commission Chief Edward Rehfeld, who takes a dim view of such adventures, spotted the contraption two miles above the falls, put in a frantic call for a U.S. Army helicopter (no pilot available), then chased after the ball along the river bank. He could follow only as far as Niagara Control Dam, where he ran out for a better look. "I wanted to see it go over...
...best of the confessions involves the superb farceurs of Smiles and Lessons. Gunnar Bjornstrand, tall, reserved, marinated in dignity, is a corporation president, and pillowy, blonde Eva Dahlbeck is his wife. Coming home from a formal-dress party, they get stuck in a self-service elevator. Frantically he stays calm. She laughs. He rages. She twits him about his reserve: is he that way with his mistresses? He blusters, then grows suspicious: has she had lovers? "Of course," she says prettily. The lights go out; she clutches at him; his top hat is mashed. The lights go on; she mocks...
...strict Aristotelian, Shakespeare is a kind of monumental fluke of genius, and Steiner skillfully covers a century of frantic effort among playwrights and critics to make Shakespeare and Sophocles compatible within the house of tragedy. The zenith of the neoclassic movement was Racine, and Steiner makes a powerful case for him as the last bona fide playwright of tragedy. The fact remains that Racine's greatest play, Phedre, draws half its impact from the Greek myth and Euripidean play on which it is based...