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Actually, cold is not quite appropriate; queasy is better. There's something unsavory about the actions. All the mental and physical sickness, the frenetic activity, the bestial violence--in fluid drama it might contribute power, but in one that's disjointed and essentially static it's just lurid.

Author: By Jamie O. Aisenberg, | Title: The Big Apple Turned Over | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

The winds danced a frenetic circle around the two lone men, and Kamik had to yell just to be heard a yard away.

Author: By Larry Grafstein, | Title: In the Arctic, You Are Not Alone | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Interestingly, The Rose evokes little nostalgia of the '60s. The concert scenes are exciting, but the audiences appear so carnivorous that Rose's on-stage death seems sacrificial. Everything looks drugged out and messy. Not only messy in a physical sense, with all of Rose's glimmering, filthy rags and...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Janis-Faced Rose | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

The curious aspect of this great discovery was that like so many other physical theories of its time, it was to lie fallow for many years. Students were forever proposing theories in a frenetic attempt to account for the many contradictions in physics; Glashow's was regarded as just another...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: An Invitation To Stockholm | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

With the World Series of city politics--the biennial municipal elections--hours away, all three slates are winding up frenetic campaigns.

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Buddy System | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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