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Word: restlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week. "He was lonely lots of times. His mother never let him get too involved with other kids." A devout member of the Church of the Nazarene, Mrs. Hartpence enforced the church's injunctions against smoking, liquor, going to the movies and slow dancing. She was also oddly restless, moving Hart and his adopted sister Nancy from one cheap rented house to another, while Husband Carl drifted from job to job. For young Gary, worldly pleasure meant driving to the town airport on a double date and dancing on the empty runway to the car radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey of a Small Town Boy | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...suggests that Hart could turn the age-change issue into a joke simply by beginning a speech with a statement of fact and then, after pausing a beat, adding, "I'm as certain of that as I am of my own age." Hart's arduous climb from restless small-town boy to presidential contender has sharpened and toughened him. The campaign will test whether his steely cool is well tempered, or too brittle. -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Hays Gorey/Washington and Jack E. White with Hart

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey of a Small Town Boy | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...actions of his friend Fliess, but occurred for other reasons. Freud came to believe that her spells of bleeding were Emma's ways of expressing a longing for his presence. Freud wrote that "her episodes of bleeding were hysterical, were occasioned by longing" and that "she became restless during the night because of an unconscious wish to entice me to go there, and since I did not come during the night, she renewed the bleeding, as an unfailing means of rear-ousing my affection...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel, | Title: Freud Revised | 3/14/1984 | See Source »

...readings and interesting philosophical analysis, but they are difficult to convey successfully even in the small, communal setting d'Estree constructs. We can only endure so many renditions of "O nobly born, do not be afraid" before the intended effect backfires, and as a result we find ourselves getting restless. Even though the show runs for only one hour. Tibetan Book of the Dead at points seems endless...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Foreign Cultures | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

...lyrical black and white photography of stormy skies, barking dog and the imposing grandeur of the Russian landscape play no small role in the overall success of the film in which visual images rise above the language barrier. King Lear is not suitable viewing material for a restless Saturday night; but for an audience willing to participate actively in the drama, it is nothing short of breath-taking...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Above the Language Barrier | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

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