Word: restless
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From the Microcosm. "I think that the really American thing in my painting is movement," says Wyeth. He was most excited by the technical challenge of depicting the flying spokes of the wheels. But there was the restless, lonely conquering of space, which Americans have had as a challenge since they first set foot in the broad New World. "I was struck by the distances in this country," said Wyeth, "which are more imagined than suggested in the picture -by the plains of the Little Big Horn and Custer and Daniel Boone and a lot of other things...
...people to a small village in the coastal Vendée region, using what has become the group's winning formula: free oysters and drinks for all comers who preregister, and an evening of tearing up agendas, smashing clocks and otherwise attacking symbols of time. Another appeal to restless New Year's Eve souls in 2006 brought more than 1,000 to Nantes. Last year Fonacon attracted more than 10,000 people with its party-cum-protest in Paris. This year Marie-Gabriel jokingly boasts that he expects "between five and 50,000 people, give or take...
...this for Soderbergh: among all contemporary American directors, he has the most restless ambitions. Since his debut film, the indie romantic comedy sex, lies, and videotape in 1989, he has won an Oscar (for directing Traffic), guided Julia Roberts to a statuette of her own (for Erin Brockovich) and launched an action-movie franchise (the Ocean's films). More important, he's let his interests range far and wide, across different genres and different kinds of movies: intellectual science fiction (Solaris), quirky ensemble comedy (Full Frontal) and defiantly obscurantist conundrum (Schizopolis). His films can toady to an audience's prejudices...
...holiday season has officially arrived. While you may not be prepared for yet another Christmas blitz, the two weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks are really just filler anyway. So you might as well grab a peppermint mocha twist, start untangling those lights, and make use of your restless pre-vacation energy. Clearly, any scrooge is just jealous that he still has to finish his thesis chapters. The trick is to prioritize: I personally made the (in retrospect, probably poor) decision to skip my MCB 52 exam review in favor of decking the Quincy dhall for three hours...
...getting back into it now, despite the constant anxiety over money. He plays for tourists in Old Havana but earns just a few dollars a night. The strings for his instrument are made out of recycled telephone wire; he cuts his guitar picks from shampoo bottles. He is still restless, eager for an upgrade in life...