Word: franticness
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...honest, if surprising, efforts at mutual understanding have compensated. After all, as I played peek-a-boo with the giggling baby girl on the seat in front of me en route from New York, I realized there are two acts that can transcend language and cultural gaps: laughter and frantic hand gestures indicating missing french fries...
...films and starring parts in B's. Brother Rat, set in the Virginia Military Institute, handed him the thankless role of the one sensible cadet in a bunch of college cutups. He was a radio announcer, again, in Boy Meets Girl--a good bit part, letting him display a frantic aplomb at a movie premiere as chaos erupts and he tries both to describe it and to rein...
Suddenly, my search was about much more than a lousy old shirt. I was unearthing my own little piece of Harvard history. I sent frantic e-mails to Rome, Los Angeles, Beijing and Boston. Half of the responses turned out to be dead ends. But four days and more than 40 e-mails later, I finally struck gold...
...granted. After more than 65 million votes poured in--more than half the number cast in the 2000 presidential election--FANTASIA BARRINO, a single mom from High Point, N.C., was crowned the third American Idol. It was a controversial season in which guest judge Elton John cried racism, frantic voters decried the jammed phone lines and the state of Hawaii just plain cried for its third-place finisher. Barrino, 19, a bluesy belter who had been an early favorite, beat Diana DeGarmo, 16, by 1.3 million votes in the finale. It was, aptly, a fairy-tale ending for a woman...
...Ashley), with "a 4.2 GPA," wakes up anxious the day she is to deliver a speech that could win her a scholarship to Oxford. Her rebellious sib Roxy (Mary-Kate) is cutting school, again, to attend the making of a rock video. Their paths cross, and they spend a frantic five hours in Manhattan getting into cute scrapes, kooky car chases, a few changes of clothes and the city's sewers...