Word: frantically
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This week Dwyane Wade, MVP of the 2006 NBA Finals, carried the Miami Heat to its first championship in franchise history. But can he carry an Adam Sandler movie? Wade took a time-out from his frantic post-title schedule - appearances on David Letterman and Live with Regis and Kelly, prepping for the team's victory parade in Miami - to chat with TIME's Adam Pitluk about what he wants to do next...
...Congress has named New Hampshire writer Donald Hall the U.S.'s new poet in chief. Hall has published 18 books of poetry--including a 1988 collection called The One Day that took 17 years to write, and two books about his late wife, poet Jane Kenyon. A "grateful" and "frantic" Hall says he would like to start a poetry channel on satellite radio or get poetry some airtime on cable TV. Can versifying reality stars be far behind...
...offered to take him on a trip Down Under funded by all the sisters. "My father never asked anything for himself," Bernadette says. "He was giddy for the next six weeks, watching audiotapes and reading books." Driving from place to place, often without hotel reservations, the daughters set a frantic pace. Although Michael kept up, it was sometimes a struggle for him. Still, he adored the trip. At a nature preserve in Australia, he let a huge python wrap itself around his neck. In Auckland, New Zealand, he sipped espresso and watched in amazement as thrill seekers, attached by wires...
...FEEL THAT WAY? I THINK THAT'S GENUINELY HOW YOU FEEL. I don't buy into doom scenarios. I've lived through all that, living under the shadow of the A-bomb and the H-bomb, without getting discouraged or hopeless or frantic. It might just be a kind of mindless optimism, sort of more genetic than thought controlled. I do tend to trust this country to come up with the right answers eventually. And I tend to trust the people in government, even though I didn't vote for them. So in that way, I'm not a pessimist...
...Thief, Witchcraft and White Unicorn ("With the white unicorn across her shoulder/ Makes you think that she might have been someone who's older") that are no less fun for being totally incomprehensible. What raises their unironic embrace of classic-rock cliché above the bar of mere cuteness is frantic musicianship and the crisp wail of singer Andrew Stockdale...