Word: restless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teachers were restless...
...times this seemed to bewilder him. On the one hand, Jordan was so afraid of complicating his image that when reporters asked him to comment on the Los Angeles riots last year, he mumbled something about not knowing what was going on. On the other hand, he grew restless within his corporate straitjacket, like the time he went gambling in Atlantic City the night before a play-off game with the New York Knicks...
...Berkeley. She did not pursue a doctorate because the "regimented environment" of academia turned her off. "School isn't my kind of thing," she admits. Still, she took a job as a biology research associate at Berkeley, which gave her the time and freedom to follow wherever her restless mind...
...breaking new ground, Davis revolutionized jazz time and again. One such turning point was the legendary series of albums (among them, Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain) that he recorded in the 1950s and '60s with arranger Gil Evans. Borne on Evans' rich orchestrations, Davis' risky improvisational strategies and restless experimentation lifted jazz onto higher planes of complexity and excitement...
...selling more than 4 million copies. Song after song started off with gorgeous guitar hooks, as in the anxious chords that kicked off Smells Like Teen Spirit, or the bouncy bass-guitar strumming that launched Lithium. Its punk-inspired, we-couldn't-care-less ethos seemed to reflect the restless apathy some young people felt toward their times. "Oh well, whatever, nevermind," Cobain sang on Teen Spirit. The strength of Nevermind was its ambiguity; the next logical step was an album with structure, a clear vision...