Word: franticness
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Typically, the mayor tried to please everybody-and ended up pleasing hardly anyone. Sweating profusely at a floodlit conference (where the mayor's frantic brow-mopping provided photographers with readymade man-in-agony pictures), Wagner announced his choices. He dumped Gerosa, picked able Deputy Mayor Paul R. Screvane, 46, to run as city council president, downrated Brooklyn Haberdasher Stark to controller. The move took Stark out of the line of succession should the mayor resign for a federal appointment. Cried Brooklyn Boss Joseph T. Sharkey, white-faced with anger: "I think the Jewish people in this town might feel...
...cities are balanced and perceptive. He also makes it plain that whites who try to get into the castle of the black man's skin are tolerated at best. Says Baldwin of his friend Norman Mailer: "They thought he was a real sweet ofay* cat but a little frantic...
...Cheaters (Silver-Zebra; Continental) and Frantic (Times Film Co.). French moviemakers have lately had the notion that any film in which the young wear duffel coats, drink too much and charge about on motor scooters belongs to the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave, and should therefore be as fashionable as sinning after lunch. Two recent arrivals resound to the phoot-phoot of scooters, but they nonetheless belong to the most ancienne of vagues-bad films. Cheaters is a solemn exercise in which Jacques Charrier, a pretty young man married to Brigitte Bardot, and some friends behave with what they...
...Frantic is a slow-moving melodrama directed by Louis Malle, who filmed The Lovers. Blonde Jeanne Moreau, who charged The Lovers with her intense, weathered sensuality, is the.star, and the plot at first seems to be that of a satisfactory thriller: Jeanne and her lover plot the killing of her husband, a rich industrialist, but during the getaway the lover gets trapped overnight in an automatic elevator (an authentic French touch). Perhaps things went wrong when Trumpeter Miles Davis was hired to do the sound track; trumpeters are doubtful assets, and should never require feature billing. Director Malle has confined...
...Ward, but their product is a weird paste-up. Many of the critical hours and major problems of the 100 days are glossed over or overlooked. Laos is dismissed with four pictures. The Cuban invasion (which occurred on the 87th day of the new Administration) is reduced to a frantic, one-page epilogue. The book is stuffed with boiler-plate material-photo essays on starving Congolese and primitive Ecuadorians that are technically brilliant but utterly irrelevant. And there are glaringly misleading statements, such as Barbara Ward's "Asia, apart from pockets of territory such as Goa, is free...