Word: restless
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Americans are still the world's most restless people. California, Florida and Texas have attracted enough newcomers to account for 42% of the U.S. population growth during the 1970s. Nevada's head count increased nearly 65%, making it the fastest-growing state. The lure, of course, is gambling, which employs almost one-third of the desolate territory's inhabitants. Nevadans have other dubious distinctions. They have the highest incidence of alcoholism and a suicide rate more than double the national average. There is also Lake Tahoe, whose commercial development the authors call "the most appalling assault...
...right time is that the audience looks for him to be there. He is the perpetual Next Big Thing. The feeling seems to be, if David's into it, then let's get on with it. He has two of the prime qualities every highflying avatar needs: a restless imagination and a roving eye. "Never wear a new pair of shoes in front of him," his friend Mick Jagger once joked. People or music, the pattern is the same. Says his old crony and frequent producer Tony Visconti: "David will spend a very passionate, intense time with someone he loves...
...Monsters (and Super Creeps), on which could be heard the figurative sound of Bowie picking up the pieces. They didn't quite fit yet, although the title track and Ashes to Ashes were two of his best songs. Let's Dance has all the consolidation and much of the restless peace that Bowie has been searching for. Says Japan's Nagisa Oshima, who directed Bowie in his upcoming film, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: "Let's Dance gives the impression that David really is free." This kind of freedom carries certain risks of its own, such as looking like a bisected...
...about him the air of restless energy and dedication that is characteristic of the breed, but his interest was slow to blossom. Son of a chemist from Canton, Mass., Scott Holmberg, 33, majored in English at Harvard. Then he joined the Peace Corps in 1971 and found himself working alone in the desolate villages of Ethiopia, struggling to learn Amharic, the country's language. It was there that the power of science changed his life. He vaccinated tens of thousands of people against smallpox as part of a team that effectively stopped the disease in the area. Many villagers...
...self without dispiriting results. The reason is that science reduces the mysterious entity to chemical interactions and sets of behavior. This does little for the craving that myth and religion once satisfied. The result is that with the shortening of these old perspectives, the self has become a restless ghost trapped in its own mechanical creation...