Word: restlessly
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Brad (Patrick Wilson) is a house husband, sweetly raising his adorable little son and pretending to study for the bar exam while his wife (Jennifer Connelly) makes documentary films to pay their mortgage. Sarah (Kate Winslet) is overeducated for this neighborhood and restless in other ways as well. Her husband is way too devoted to Internet porn, and she finds her daughter can be a pesky nuisance...
...secrets of Grisham's success are no secret at all. There are two of them: his pacing, which ranges from fast to breakneck, and his Theme--little guy takes on big conspiracy, with the little guy getting the win in the end. But Grisham has been getting restless. There are signs that the Theme is not enough for him. "It's human nature to question whether or not you can do something else," he says. "You do something really well a few times, and you don't want to get stereotyped as just the one kind of writer. You want...
With the press, the President has been brimming over with restless energy. Rich Lowry of National Review, who was in a group of conservatives ushered onto the Oval Office couches and found the President to be "utterly self-assured," says the President nearly leaped out of his chair when he made some points. Lowry wrote that Bush untwisted what looked like a paper clip as he talked, "then twisted it around his finger until it was in a little bow." During a Rose Garden press conference, the President thrilled photographers with so many two-handed gestures--now up high...
...room, replace the romance of movies on a big screen? It seems likely that Reeves thought he could hide in plain sight on the contemptible small screen - do his part, collect his paycheck and go on dreaming about getting a still bigger break. He reckoned without the bored and restless kids who quickly made Superman must-see TV among the after-school set. He reckoned without their bemused parents who made his tacky little show a camp favorite (before the term became common coinage). Mostly, though, his problem was that he had never had a strong, starry identity before...
...better films (and they are not many in comparison to those he has messed up) Altman has used his peculiar style - mumbled dialogue often overlapped, a restless camera zooming, panning, tracking - to obscure the fact that they have very little to say. The lives he recounts are hopelessly muddled and ruled by chance and coincidence, with their outcomes generally a nasty surprise both to the players and to us in the audience. The way he encourages (or at least permits) his actors to improvise makes him a beloved figure to them, and permits his more impressionable viewers to feel they...