Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close to family as most of us would ever get"). Lovers are always too distant in these tales, and families usually too close. Generations are in every sense confused. One story finds a teenage girl drawn to one of her mother's high school friends; another has a restless middle-age woman mothered by her house-loving daughter. Sadder even than the abundance of casual pregnancies is the absence of parental models. Too old for her age, and too young, one high school girl reads Ingenue, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle and the Bible alone at night in her room. Why the last...
Wilbur and Orville shows how the Wright stuff got aviation off the ground. -- The restless, searching stories of Jayne Anne Phillips...
Every spring, billions of birds, increasingly restless from the secretion of seasonal hormones, mass into flocks, burst into the sky and pour up the great flyways across the U.S. and Canada. Millions of birders, just as restless but without hormonal justification, compulsively pour outdoors in search of vireos, tanagers, flycatchers, hawks and the stars of the season, brilliantly colored warblers...
...Walton, and the fortune he has amassed as founder and chairman of Wal-Mart Stores is estimated at $4.5 billion and growing. But Walton spends virtually no time counting his money, or even bothering to spend it. He is too busy as one of America's most restless and evangelical corporate leaders. Thanks to his uncanny ability to motivate employees and slash expenses, the chain of discount stores Walton started just 25 years ago has become the fastest-growing and most influential force in the retailing industry. "It's the best-managed company I've ever followed...
Young and restless politicians with one life to live, desperately searching for the guiding light to another world of national celebrity. A new soap opera? Not quite, but close. It is the televised Iran-contra hearings that will pre-empt the soaps this week...