If no other program during the festival's second weekend matched the feverish tension of this opening event, a sense of thorough-going engagement and penetrating analysis nevertheless rarely dipped.
Speaking with characteristic flair at the Forum for New Diplomacy, co-hosted by the International Herald Tribune and the Académie Diplomatique Internationale, Ms. Lagarde recounted the feverish build-up to the weekend rescue with markets nosediving and policy makers scrambling to stay in control.
And Alpha, a cow worth thousands of dollars, became weak and feverish after miscarrying twins, unfortunately on a weekend.
DESPITE the feverish attention on box-office results each weekend, the truth is that Hollywood stopped relying on the multiplexes to make money a long time ago.
In his place, and following feverish speculation in the Monza paddock throughout the course of the Italian Grand Prix weekend, Raikkonen looks set to partner Fernando Alonso from next season.
While the bidding can get feverish, the auction itself is actually one of the more sober parts of a long weekend of Burgundy-fueled events surrounding the auction, known locally as Les Trois Glorieuses, "the three glorious ones".
A feverish little parallel universe shimmying through the freezing Swedish night, the GayTrain triumphantly set the tone for a wild weekend up country.
For the past few weeks, and notably over the course of this weekend in the build-up to the Singapore Grand Prix, Alonso's future has been the subject of feverish speculation.
The feverish search for Ms. Sierra — by the Turkish police, American investigators and, later, her husband and her brother — ended over the weekend with the grim discovery of her body alongside a busy coastal road outside the walls of Istanbul's old city, about three and a half miles from where she was staying.
