Word: franticness
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There is a doomsday feel to such a figure, especially with the millennium approaching. Statisticians are already drooling over all those zeroes, and the frantic calculations that have ensued are a mathematician's dream. Bullet points on all the major news websites show the results of their labor: did you know that it took all of time for the world population to hit one billion in 1804, but only twelve years for it to jump from five billion to six billion? Did you know that one tenth of all the people who have ever lived are alive today...
...album Surrender. I can only go home and put on my CD and imagine the joyful beats and mesmerizing noise spewed forth from the mechanized consoles of the Brothers. I must be content with the knowledge that if the rest of the show looked and sounded like the first frantic minutes, then one amazing experience...
...ordered the compound shut on Wednesday, after militia groups attacked a U.N. food convoy, his local representatives revolted: fearing the 1,500 refugees in the compound would be massacred once the foreigners left, the staff members circulated petitions and announced they would stay. After a few hours of frantic negotiating, the U.N. left behind a skeleton staff of 84 people, who endured three days of nightmarish shelling and intimidation by pro-Jakarta thugs...
...with different causes and results. Back then, the social eruptions came not from random acts of carnage but from an economic collapse that whacked the country. The films of the early '30s are full of clues to America's mood in the first long ache of the Great Depression: frantic, feisty, obsessed with getting a job, a buck and ahead by any means necessary. Today's typical film is a fairy tale; the '30s pictures played like tabloid journalism--the March of Crime. Gangsters, gold diggers, ruthless businessmen, wage slaves and the not-working class all jumped...
...that he would help launch a frantic search for his nephew, Ted was leading a fight in the Senate for a more expansive Patients' Bill of Rights. But by nightfall on that Friday, when no one in Hyannis Port had heard from John and Carolyn, it was Ted who called John in Manhattan, hoping he had not left. But he got only the voice of a friend whose air conditioning had broken down and who, at John's invitation, was staying in his Tribeca apartment. Yes, John had left. No, he had not been heard from. The Senator reached Hyannis...