Word: restless
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...theme parks, and the Times Square Alliance has learned a lot about crowd control from the Mouse House. Since an attraction at the Magic Kingdom typically entails standing in line for a half hour or more before four minutes of the ride, Disney keeps the customers from getting too restless and ornery with a "pre-show" of filmed or live infotainment...
...images ranged from the cover of the Nov. 28 issue of The Dartmouth Review, which depicted a Native American with a scalp in his hand, along with the headline “The Natives are Getting Restless!” to a 1936 depiction of Adolf Hitler as a Native American...
...Beyond that, it seems to me that we have been too often in these classrooms, once again asked to be amused by restless lads and to admire their odd-ball teacher. But director Nicholas Hytner's film version of a play everyone thought was "cinematic? (mostly because it contained some film pieces) is an improvement on the original. It has a flow and an intimacy that the often awkward theatrical version lacked. And it employs the same cast that played it in London and New York and the relatively minor changes Bennett has made in adapting it to the screen...
America has always been a nation of pilgrims--people who come here and those born here who like to move around. But if you are feeling restless and want to explore the country, don't go by the names or you'll get lost. Loving County, Texas, needs to sound so friendly because it is the least populated county in the lower 48. New Jersey is the Garden State, but it's more like a planter, since it's the most densely populated in the country. Sundance, Wyo., sounds like a merry place, but it was named for a Lakota...
...Bedroom. Yet it is a more ambitious film and a considerable achievement, particularly in the ways it permits authentic savagery to break through the leafy languidness of suburban life, powerfully reinforcing the notion that no matter how comfortable people believe they are, violence--sometimes open, sometimes present as a restless quirk of the mind--is never more than a heartbeat away...