Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skeleton of the original is still recognizable in Prascak's version. The plot is basically the same: Peerless Gynt, a young dreamer-adventurer, spends his life in restless self-imposed exile from his one true love, the everpure Solveig. During his travels, a plethora of temptresses, trolls, lunatics, and other fanciful creatures test his wits, his consciousness, and his sense of identity...
...watching. He may also find that his fondness for vignettes ("Remember when Aunt Bea got squiffed and vamped the delivery boy?") undercuts the dramatic imperative to hold the anonymous viewer's attention. Private lives don't always play in public. Grandpa's % ripping yarn is a stranger's restless yawn...
...compared with 300,000 in 1981. Once the province of aging screen stars and wealthy matrons, cosmetic surgery now attracts middle-class office workers, many in their 30s and 40s, and many of them men. Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon Richard Grossman describes the phenomenon as "another transition" for the restless Me generation: "They protested against the wars, and now they're protesting against the mirrors...
...baffled. Du Ponts, after all, did not become lawyers, they hired them. Twelve years later, after du Pont had finished law school and fulfilled his filial obligation by working in the family business -- the country's largest chemical company -- he went back to his father. He was restless: one of his more memorable company tasks was assessing whether du Pont should manufacture peanut butter and jelly in an aerosol can. He wanted to try his hand at politics. "I was on track to become a senior executive at 63, and I was only 30," explains du Pont...
...network of harmonious songlines convinces him that Homo sapiens is not hopelessly belligerent. He reconstructs a conversation he had with Konrad Lorenz, ethnologist and author of the influential On Aggression; he ransacks his notebooks and ponders anthropological and philosophical teachings. His hesitant conclusion is that humans are fundamentally restless and, like the aboriginal, the species needs to wander...