Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gilded turn-of-the-century cage, Alexander draws a poignant portrait of repressed freedom. As a dry rulebook tyrant, Kiley gives us a man whose only contact with the heart is through a stethoscope. Playgoers whose attention spans have been shortened by films and TV may get restless at Director George Keathley's pacing, which is meticulous and deliberate...
Some apathy. Considerable cynicism. A restless quest for serenity. A rising concern over spiritual and moral values. Continuing distrust of institutions, but increasing confidence in the future...
...Becoming restless, Howard soon headed for Hollywood, where he used the earnings from Toolco, as the company became known, to teach himself the art of film making. He was such a fast learner that within two years he won an Oscar for a silent comedy and went on to produce Hell's Angels, an epic of World War I aerial combat. For the leading lady, he discovered Jean Harlow, whose wondrously sculpted shape, platinum hair, plus a certain charming vulgarity, gave her a unique place in the American libido...
...mind is at bottom unceasingly observant and perceptive, interested in and a little bored by everything, endlessly analytical of self and surroundings. Because of this, the way the novel is presented in the form of widely varied bits and scraps of experience and expression fits well; roving and restless minds, after all, lack consistency and matured, unified vision...
...portray Alan Casper, Native Intelligence is fine; it is as a real novel that it is hampered by its own wit and restless eclecticism. The materials in the novel run a bizarre gamut from an incredibly difficult crossword puzzle (Sokolov offers to send readers the solution, for a dollar), to a lengthy glossary of the Xixi language, to purported New York Times clippings, to a threatening letter Alan writes President Kennedy. The feeling emerges from it all that Sokolov is playing myriad obscure jokes throughout, that some second satiric meaning lurks behind everything. Is the Xixi language full of esoteric...