Word: freneticism
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The crowd accepts it as just the Dancer's routine. Straight Face, in front from the gate, gradually opens a lead. The great murmur of the crowd grows deeper. In the third quarter the Dancer, his head merely rising and falling to the other horses' frenetic bobbing, reaches the quarter...
Free Gardenias. Webb's colleagues referred to him as the "man with a hundred voices-all alike.'' Unabashed, he talked KGO into letting him do a comedy show, lured in audiences by getting a florist to donate free gardenias. "Did you call me, doctor?" he would cry...
As Lorelei Lee, who believes that diamonds are a girl's best friend, Marilyn Monroe does the best job of her short career to date. Her almost surrealist figure, quite as implausible as a Petty girl's, fascinates every male aboard a transatlantic luxury liner, from a monocled...
Two "Interlopers." On Tuesday morning, while most of his fellow Justices were packing their vacation bags, Douglas had listened in his chambers to two sets of lawyers: the Rosenbergs' regular counsel, and a couple of earnest, frenetic newcomers to the case, Fyke Farmer of Nashville and Daniel Marshall of...
"Fast-paced" is usually a compliment to a play. In the Case of Gigi, however, it's a kind understatement. There are many Gallicisms in Gigi, but the most apparent is its ten-day-bicycle-race quality. After barely two frenetic hours of rushed dialogue, countless entrances and exits, and...