Word: restless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Behind Paul's reminiscences of an unhappy childhood lies the Brando who grew up as a restless, competitive child in Libertyville, Ill., the son of a remote father and a feckless mother. Paul tells Jeanne at one point: "My father was a drunk, a screwed-up bar fighter. My mother was also a drunk. My memories as a kid are of her being arrested. We lived in a small town, a farming community. I used to have to milk a cow every morning and every night, and I liked that. But I remember one time I was all dressed...
...flush of popularity, Brando still insists that "privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to; it's an absolute requisite." He still holds to his old credo that "conformity breeds mediocrity." And although he does not ride a motorcycle much any more, he remains a restless loner, a middle-aged delinquent of the film industry. If he had a theme song, it would be Elgar's Enigma Variations...
...Sadat became president, Egypt has seen neither the increase in internal freedoms that he promised nor a solution to the no-war, no-peace stalemate that grips the Middle East. The students, moreover, are only one of many groups who are unhappy with the situation. The army is so restless that Sadat last October relieved his outspoken War Minister, General Mohammed Sadek; no reason was ever stated but anti-Sadat army grumbling was at the root of it. Afterward there were rumors in Cairo of abortive military coups. Egyptian journalists openly agitate against censorship. In a recent incident in Alexandria...
...months of each year without seeing the sun. In this polar blackness or mørketiden* (murky time), the mentally unstable may slip over the edge into a temporary state of profound mental disturbance. Even those who are emotionally healthy the rest of the year may become unaccountably tense, restless, fearful and preoccupied with thoughts of death and suicide...
Winter term at a Catholic boarding school for boys, and the students are restless. But this is no case of ordinary snowbound ennui, as eager young Gym Teacher Paul Reis (Beau Bridges) soon discovers. There have been "six student-caused accidents" in the winter term alone. Fingers have been mashed, brows bloodied, eyes gouged, as if the boys were all under the rule of some demoniac impulse...