Word: restless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hence, seven songs into the Red House Painters' set, and with the apparently virile contingent beginning to become intolerably restless, a kid blurted out, "Would you play, 'Make Like Paper,' or at least something that rocks?'" Not missing a beat, Kozelek responded, "Who the Hell did you think you were coming to see?" But this misunderstanding, or missed expectation, epitomizes the contradiction that existed between the venue and the band on Sunday night, and also the reason why it became more awkward and discomfiting to experience Red House Painters live, in spite of their bravura performances, than in the cold...
...audience responded with laughter to his poem "Restless Leg Syndrome," in which a soldier's leg "for no apparent reason flies around the room kicking stuff...
...slowly as possible so as not to cause panic; in this tightly knit society the slaughter was so intimate--neighbors killing neighbors--that it will be impossible to hide. So far, men like Jonasi Ruziga seem content to let loved ones go unavenged a while longer, hoping their restless ghosts are willing to wait as Rwanda struggles to rebuild from the ashes of genocide...
Cubism could not contain Picasso's restless energies for more than a handful of years, and the latter part of Richardson's second volume shows the artist moving toward a mining of classical images for his own work, trying, as always, "to cannibalize the art of the past and remake it in his own image...
Clinton, a restless man defined by his energy and appetites, concludes that the only constant about life today is its unremitting motion. For his generation even the revolutions came from within and aren't over yet--civil rights, sexual freedom and now the one under way, driven by silicon and imagination. And so the beautiful thing about Clinton and the horrible thing about him too is that he moves with these changes almost daily, modulating his positions to fit the changing moods. If Dole, in his style and syntax, often seems strangely off-key, Clinton is a tuning fork, banging...