Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beer jingles and tucks in her son under a Star Wars bedspread. If this seems the derisory stuff of sitcoms, it is not. "I never mock suburbia," Spielberg declares. "My life comes from there." He likes these people and communicates that affection. Faced with balky children or a restless preternatural presence, the parents demonstrate their go-with-the-flow resilience. And when things get climactically hairy, these people can be roused to fear and anger, can summon reserves of surprising strength They are the movies' favorite species: ordinary heroes...
...releases the poltergeists (literally, noisy ghosts) from their long bondage between this world and the next. Drawn to the blankly fuzzy, humming screen of the living-room TV late one night, Carol Anne speaks to them, and is heard and seduced and swallowed by them into the restless heart of the house. The film's last hour documents a harrowing tug of wills between Carol Anne's from and the spectral army surrounding them; between the spirits and two specialists, a parapsychologist (Beatrice Straight) and a child-voiced psychic (Zelda Rubinstein), who exert their powers to "cleanse...
...reason for Thatcher's firmness was that she was coming under fire from an unusual source: right-wing members of the Conservative Party are growing increasingly restless with their government's willingness to try for a negotiated settlement. To those M.P.s, Britain has already made too many concessions. Such accusations drew an angry riposte from Foreign Secretary Francis Pym, who stoutly insisted that "our resolve has not wavered. Our military presence in the South Atlantic is continuing to become stronger. If, in the end, Argentine intransigence prevented success in negotiations, Argentina will know there is another kind...
...Schlesinger tells it, Bitter Fruit resulted from his interest in the CIA. In 1976, the Agency was being thoroughly investigated by Congress. Schlesinger, a little restless at Time, undertook some research of his own and became intrigued by the constant references to the 1954 coup in Guatemala. "There would be a single sentence in almost every article I read on the CIA about the coup with no further explanation," he says. "So I decided to send away to the government to see what they...
...conference table in a subbasement deep beneath a Beirut apartment building, argued that it is to the P.L.O.'s advantage to let the Israelis strike first, both because he believes they would sustain heavy casualties and because they would be branded as the aggressors. Arafat has told his restless officers that if they let the Israelis attack and are able to hold out for ten days, the P.L.O. would get so much international support that it would have embassies in London and Paris within a month. Although some of the officers in his Fatah organization believe the P.L.O. should...