Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexandra Phillips and Alexander Pearson, as the sexually deviant couple, work well together--his neurotic calmness offset by her frantic hysteria. As Dr. Prentice tries with the determination born of despair to hide the evidence of his misdemeanor. Mrs. Prentice rushes madly from one end of the stage to the other, always one step behind. Melissa Franklin, as the hapless Geraldine Barclay, adds an Edward Gorey-like gallows humor to the play. She plays the innocent, dumb blond with evenness, never falling into the easy trap of whining or simpering...
...Nashville, Dallas and L.A., until he arrives by Greyhound at the city of the country's heart, which he is driven to penetrate. So after a while even he becomes real. At week's end one understands not everything, but a lot more than seemed possible on frantic Monday. The people were in control here...
Many have zigzagged from city to city, partly to stalk then" targets in an eery dance of death - drawing close, then pulling away - and partly to express in frantic motion a personality threatened with disintegration. Oswald traveled to the Soviet Union, New Orleans and Mexico; John Lennon's accused killer, Mark Chapman, moved from Tennessee to Atlanta to Honolulu and New York...
...FIRST SIDE of Sucking is highlighted by two slow-paced tunes which never received much attention the first time they were released. "Everything's Turning to Gold" accompanied "Shattered" as a single in 1978, and presents a relaxed alternative to the frantic, depraved view of life and love presented by the better-known song. "Now that the love juice starts to flow/Everything is turning to gold," Jagger growls, forgetting his cries about "Laughter, joy and loneliness, and sex and sex and sex, and look at me, I'm in tatters--I've been shattered...
...beginning ... He and Troise and half a dozen of their friends were sitting around the café on a night like any other night, waiting for Boswell and Dr. Johnson to arrive, when the talk turned to the frantic trendiness of U.S. society. Go to a cocktail party, someone said, and everybody's talking about manipulating the money market, or parachute jumping, or that group therapy where everybody sits nude in a big tub of Wesson Oil. Yeah, said another citizen, there you are in your clean bowling shirt and they all want to go to the roller disco...