Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under all the talk about agreement between the various Cantabridgians and library corporation personnel is the knowledge that the Kennedys are getting anxious to pull the whole complex out of Cambridge...
...hospital is modern and well managed, as close to a first-class resort as a poor person is ever likely to encounter. The other patients-comic in some instances, tragic in others-are all helpful in drawing her out of her anxious reserve. A decent, quiet-spoken young mechanic (Daniel Quenaud), who bought her a comforting cup of coffee when they met at the clinic back home, now offers her the possibility of a gentle romance unlike anything she has ever known...
...university is appealing the injunction, insisting that the hearings should remain secret because "the disgrace of being convicted publicly by the honor court is too overwhelming." Whatever the outcome of the legal battle, Student Prosecutor Marmish is anxious to renew the investigation. Says he: "We want to get them...
...hurt-animal despair..." Kael's review reads, "Mabel returns, chastened, a fearful hurt-animal look on her face." This is a common enough phrase, were it not followed later in Stephen's review by the Jine, "Mabel waits for the schoolbus to return with her kids, pacing like an anxious speed freak..." Kael writes: "...a big beautiful blonde in tight, short chemises, she darts about like an anxious speed freak...
...that I consciously used some of Parllne Kael's descriptions of particular memonts in the movie. I read her piece about a week before beginning my own, and hold in mind the expression "handsome, grainy-cinema-verite" and the characterization of Mabel as a "chastened, hurt-animal" penitent and "anxious speed freak." By any ethical standards I should have given credit to the New Yorker review...