In "Pastoralia," his frantic characters move through defamiliarized terrain.
Here the frantic characters regularly call one another idiots, yet "Undeclared" always seems smart and effortless.
But Easy is never happy unless he's doing favors for people with no one else to turn to, so there are plenty of secondary plots with frantic characters, all talking a blue streak.
Indeed, van Hove treats the text as a kind of libretto, punctuating Miller's flat words with effects, such as the portentous beating of a small drum offstage as Eddie spins more and more out of control, like the frantic characters in Bausch's 1975 rendition of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," another piece about individuality and the community.
So why, instead of waiting two months for the general's report, have politicians in Washington allowed the debate to take on such a frantic new character?In this section Can Europe's recovery last?
King and Smith, who are thirty-two and thirty-one, respectively, had grown up watching "Saturday Night Live" sketches in which a sweaty, frantic Chris Farley character ranted, "I am thirty-five years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river!" But, the way Huntington described it, living in a vehicle sounded not pathetic but romantic.
Gay genre films remain rare, and science fiction films' inclusion of gay characters continues to relegate them to supporting roles, such as the "stereotypical, limp-wristed, frantic homosexual" minor character in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, a film whose main theme has been described as being the anxiety surrounding male friendships and homosexual panic.
Instead of coming to the aid of the injured girl, Mr. Chappelle's character, frantic and presumably high, hopped on the victim's rickety four-wheeler and took off.
Through these characters' frantic determination to connect and to communicate, Lodge reveals the impossibility of communication.
Often compared by critics to Breathless (1960) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955), it is a stylistic departure from studio norms, driven by its jazz score and employing filmic techniques described as being as energetic and frantic as its characters.
