Word: restless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deal about the way banks work, how mafiosi behave, and what life is like in the slums ("with survival a daily challenge and with crime--petty and otherwise--a surrounding norm"), among other things. Whole scenes and chunks of dialogue have obviously been put in solely because Hailey, the restless chronicler, wanted to illuminate some little-known aspect of banking. His approach is microcosmic--dealing with banks by writing about one bank, with bankers by creating two of them--but that seems to have been, for him, the most painless and exciting way of getting across the information. Besides simple...
...million Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel, which opened last week, is the latest extravaganza in the career of John C. Portman Jr. Restless, driving, so egotistical that he often antagonizes his backers, Portman, 51, is an architect who not only has done more to change hoteldom than anyone since Conrad Hilton, but also is the first major talent in his profession to own as well as design buildings. His trademark is the architecture of entertainment in cities. "I have been accused of doing up a sophisticated Disneyland for adults," he says. "I plead guilty...
...have very little emotional effect on one another--for them the pose, the image is everything. There is hardly a period-character who isn't included in Larry's group of artsy Village friends. His girlfriend, Sarah, is a Jewish princess who sleeps with him even though she is restless for a less loitering life. Robert is a suave, narcissistic poet-playwright: Anita, suicidal; Bernstein is a cute black homosexual; and Connie, the old maid, everybody's best friend. Although they spend hours together in heavy intellectual raps, when something important happens--the suicide of Anita, Sarah running...
...slave song, whose plea has been transported into a scene of city night life: "Just show me God, quick./Then let me sleep./...and all the soft windows of the neighborhood/are darkening, one by one." There's a snake in the poem--it is embodied by the restless musicians and their instruments, by a vaguely threatening and depraved woman. And the poet includes a quiet nod to Miles Davis--his recording on Sagan's record player just might be the source of her vision...
...magazine." But despite suggestions from Lear and virtually everyone else on the set, Marcus finds the pace leaves hardly any "time to work out where the story is going." The original 60-page "bible" that traced planned story lines was expected to last at least six months. Restless Mary consumed it in three weeks. At the moment the writers are only a harrowing eight scripts ahead of each day's taping...