Word: restless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game, junior swingman Don Fleming hit a jumper from the top of the key to close the margin to 41-21, and the crowd greeted the news with a standing ovation. Why? The hoop provided the team's first points of the half; the mock salute from the restless IAB crowd of 1300 burned home the message: the team that won its first three ballgames--and lost the next three--still has a long...
...Bishop of London told his flock that two recent quakes were warnings from an angry deity. Today, scientists prefer another explanation, an all-encompassing view of the earth known as the theory of plate tectonics. It holds that the planet's surface consists of a dozen or so restless plates, each about 70 miles thick. Their movements explain volcanoes, the rise of mountains and the drift of continents. They account for quakes as well, most of which seem to occur where the great plates meet-at the so-called Ring of Fire, for instance, the tremor-and volcano-prone...
...McGinnis, like a Studs Terkel of the Arctic, fills his latest book with the words and appearances of people: the restless, the desperate, the shifty-eyed, the rowdy, the stupid, the tough, the stubborn, the stoned and the drunk. He listens to the beery yarns, life histories, and why-we-came-to-Alaska expoundings of a motley assortment of fast dealers, Dangerous Dan McGrews, crazed clergymen, plain folks, hippies keeping warm and dry and happy snorting cocaine, bartenders, flinty newspaper editors, pipeline workers, various well-and-not-so-well-intentioned politicians, naturalists and whores. All of them seem to lean...
McGinnis' book, like its subject, is unfinished. He packs it with the energy, diversity, and extremity of our last frontier, but he leaves it too raw. It becomes construction noise and restless people passing through. Alaska has not made any sense of itself yet, and neither has McGinnis. There is too little attempt to understand what he has recorded. Nevertheless, he presents the real scene, the graceless complete one. It has the robust glow and toughness of the Alaska that is one huge ragged edge of America...
...might have been a disaster. Merton was so restless in infancy, his mother recorded, that only by singing to him could she quiet him sufficiently to dress the boy. His artist father, a New Zealander, cultivated his son's passion for the creative; the talented but apparently frustrated American mother gave him a compulsion to be perfect. That Thomas would long feel unloved may well have come from his desperate efforts to please this fastidious woman. When she lay dying of cancer, she refused to let her children see her; she sent the six-year-old Thomas a farewell...