Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a near reverence for authority, East German youths are growing restless because of contact with the freedoms and goods of the West, while an increasingly impatient cadre of younger, more reformist party figures are chafing over the closed door to change at the top. While East Germany seems out of step with other countries of the bloc, it is still marching toward its own brand of Communist crisis...
Along the streets of the sleepy Soviet border town of Termez, anxious wives, restless children, curious journalists and proud military officers began to assemble shortly after dawn. As local Communist Party officials arranged a banquet of fruits and nuts on a long white-clothed table, a small troupe of Uzbek dancers rehearsed their steps. Seven Young Pioneers, their trademark red scarves flapping in the breeze, clutched flowers. Just after 11:30, a military band burst into lively music to greet the first of 60 armored personnel carriers rumbling into sight across the steel "Friendship Bridge" at the border. When...
CEZANNE: THE EARLY YEARS, 1859-1872, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The least-known period of one of the best-known painters: his restless 20s and early 30s, when he disciplined his huge talent. Through April...
...entire globe floating in the void. It was the centerpiece of a new era, a new consciousness: the Space Age. In the cramped confines of an 11-ft.-long module, blasted aloft by a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket, the three astronauts embodied an American urge for restless exploration, wedded to an unheard-of degree of technical precision. With the nation's self-confidence in tatters, its international prestige besmirched, the U.S. could do something wonderfully right...
...Restless souls forever in search of the cutting edge but never quite sure they have found it are directed to Manhattan's new Royalton Hotel, in the theater district. At least for now, the cutting edge is here. Bring Band-Aids...