Word: freneticism
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The crowd that had formed around the sand pit for the finals became hushed as Johnson bowed his head and began the approach of his first jump. As soon as he left the ground it was obvious that this was no ordinary leap. Before the length was announced the crowd...
GANCE'S TREATMENT of the Victims' Balls, spontaneous explosions of frenetic relief sweeping though the prisons at the end of the Revolution, frames the orgiastic celebration in a series of viscous pink images. Exuberance at surviving the horror strips the victims of social convention. Prudence gives way to prurience. Bodies...
These are only the bare bones of the plot. The author, who has also been one of the most felicitous movie scenarists of his generation (A Night to Remember, The Cruel Sea), may have developed his unerring tempo from that medium. His labyrinthine plots, however, are uniquely Amblerian. Hero Halliday...
Cable TV ads are, so far, usually just the same frenetic 30-second spots seen on the mainline channels. Cable News Network, Ted Turner's 24-hour all-news channel from Atlanta, carries the standard commercials for Quaker Oats, Holiday Inns and others.
She meets up with her friends down the road, and they cruise all night. Three carloads of drugged, glassy-eyed, wild-haired teenage girls lurch along dirt roads, frenetic music stimulating them like an electric cattle prod into disjointed spasms. Snaporaz eventually flees, panicked, into the pleasure palace of Dr...