Word: freneticism
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"We ought," mused House Minority Whip Les Arends, "to pass a law to abolish the last couple of weeks of the session." In the frenetic atmosphere of the waning 89th Congress, such a bill might even stand a good chance of passage.
Frenetic Blessing. Neither the nation's business nor its social life could have assumed today's form without the airlines. "Of all the inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted," wrote English Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1848, "those which abridge distance have done the most...
If Osborne is a frenetic machine gunner with words, Harold Pinter is the coolest of snipers. The rooms in which most of Pinter's plays take place crackle with laconic menace. In The Birthday Party, which has echoes of Hemingway's The Killers, two agents come to a...
As always, the carnival atmosphere was frenetic. One contessa's elegant evening of black-tie art patronage wound up with frugging into the wee hours until neighbors, annoyed at the noise, pelted the windows with pebbles. Artist Francois Dallegret, who fashions fantastic automobiles, decked himself out like a skyrocket...
Nikolais offers no explanations for what he calls his "esthetic Rorschach." He prefers instead that each viewer see what he will see. More than dance, it is an ingenious melding of motion (often frenetic), shape (usually grotesque), color (always striking), light (constantly changing) and sound (super-stereophonic) into new and...