A restaurant-style dinner for work-crazed urban professionals, it is as steady and simple as it is elegant and rich.
Admittedly, France trails the work-crazed United States in productivity, but only by a mere $3 per hour worked.
But please, don't pretend that most Americans agree with you, or that the trip is the work of a crazed radical.
Reasonable people understand this is just fear mongering to scare enough people into being all worked up and crazed to get on TV.
Dadd's minuscule attention to natural detail makes this a work of crazed wonderment.
"Even on days where we're so crazed with work, we force each other to take a quick break," Ms. Strada said.
This teaming, volatile 20-minute work is frenetic, slightly crazed (especially when it pushes the cello into a stratospheric register), brooding, rhapsodic to the point of being rambling, yet always involving.
The dizzying, slightly crazed passage work, played here with crisp rhythmic clarity, seemed to be pointing the way to the scurrying, every-which-way counterpoint of Elliott Carter's 1945 Piano Sonata.
A member of the king's inner circle who attended the chicken-and-rice dinner with King Abdullah and Queen Rania said that Obama had gone a long way toward assuaging their fears that he would be so eager to run away from his paternal family's Muslim roots and to woo skeptical American Jews that he would not be "the honest broker" they long for after W.'s crazed missionary work in the Middle East.
As entertaining and illuminating as it is to be a fly on Nissenbaum's wall -- to see how his practice and his mind work, how his often crazed clients fight for the their lives, their children, and their fortunes -- there are political dimensions to this story that Nissenbaum refrains from exploring.
He was crazed by his work to the detriment of many other aspects of his life.
