Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Simon and Willie himself -- and weave them into a subtly colored spiritual stocktaking, a sort of internal monologue that's like a road movie set to music. It's one measure of their singular achievement that disparate as their sources may be, they all focus finely on Nelson's restless spirit. Across the Borderline is as achingly, bracingly personal as any record he's made since the seminal Red Headed Stranger...
When it was all over, the questions belonged to everyone, every pundit and prophet and armchair analyst. Did it have to end this way? Did the feds just get restless and vengeful at the crazy people who had killed four of their colleagues? Were the Davidians in fact intending to come out in a matter of days? Above all, did the cult members really set out to burn themselves and their children alive? Or did the tanks knock down their camp lanterns, burst open the propane, accidentally tossing a spark onto the tinder? A mass suicide? A mass homicide...
Kicking off his campaign for a national vote of confidence, Boris Yeltsin stepped briskly before a restless, questioning crowd of students and instructors at the Moscow Aviation Institute last week. After a brief introduction, he jumped straight into his speech, speaking loudly and with no emotion. At one point, the head of the institute started chatting with colleagues sitting at a table behind Yeltsin, prompting the Russian President to interrupt his reading and glower at them. The mood lightened only when Yeltsin, 30 minutes into his speech, practiced a little pork-barrel politics and promised the students better living stipends...
Scientists are also trying to find inborn personality traits that might make people more physically aggressive. The tendency to be a thrill seeker may be one such characteristic. So might "a restless impulsiveness, an inability to defer gratification," says psychologist Richard Herrnstein of Harvard, whose theories about the hereditary nature of intelligence stirred up a political storm in the 1970s. A high threshold for anxiety or fear may be another key trait. According to psychologist Jerome Kagan, also of Harvard, such people tend to have a "special biology," with lower-than-average heart rates and blood pressure...
...busy with outside deals, and they get shunted to junior agents." His boss Jeff Berg echoes that point: "My core business is managing the careers of talented people." This may be the major risk in Ovitz's expansive strategy; CAA clients could start to feel neglected and then restless, even if their fears were unjustified...