His ability to capture the luminescence of the skies, both on calm days and feverish ones, plus his dominion over the painted waters, had him labeled as the "painter of light".
Sam Sachs, the director of the Frick Collection, had ordered a special book for the occasion: a collection of the letters that Vincent Astor wrote to Brooke Marshall -- up to five feverish ones a day -- when he was wooing her.
He left several versions of this small, feverish one-man piece, a vision of himself on the verge of turning 30 in 1990, working constantly on his musical "Superbia," desperately wondering if he would ever leave his mark on the form he so loved.
Now many are stepping up their efforts to lure gamblers from their neighbors to their growing ranks of slot machines, leaving states like Delaware, which embraced gambling early, struggling to keep up in what has become a feverish one-armed-bandit arms race.
"God must have come down and created this place Himself," wrote one feverish poster on yelp.com, the online city-guide site that has become an Internet hub for frozen-yogurt enthusiasts.
One feverish night I found myself in the living room standing before the bookcase containing my mother's classics for the masses.
"I love her madly, passionately, with feverish intensity, as one can only love a woman who responds to one with a petrified smile, ever calm and unchanging.
One says: my past life seems to me like a dream, a feverish dream! all one gloomy huddle of strange actions and dim-coloured motives!
Despite seven years without a change of membership on the court -- the longest such period since the 1820's -- and despite feverish speculation, no one retired.
California Chrome, the 1-2 onds on favourite and a horse reaching iconic status at a feverish pace, covered the one and three sixteenth miles of the Preakness in 1 54.84 – just under two seconds outside of the track record of 1 53.00 held by another national treasure, Secretariat.
Instead, I saw a programme about the making of the film one hot, feverish day, off school and bundled up in blankets, nestled between my parents on the sofa.
