Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unbearable heat and dust which return with a violent brutality each year. Olivia and Anne, or the other hand, couldn't be more different physically and socially. Both must adhere to the mores of Indian and British societies which apply in their time, although they seem to share a restless vitality which ultimately marks them as outsiders...
...party, too, is restless. Buried deep in the ranks of its 35 million to 40 million members are old careerists and rice-bowl men who grabbed offices during the Cultural Revolution. Many have been forced out. But millions remain, and they must somehow finally be ousted. A purge is scheduled for late this year. Party cells are already being called together to restore the shattered morale of all those who were once willing to give their lives to high purpose...
Aquino made it clear that he intended to return in the near future to his homeland. Although he said "Harvard is like a second home to me." Aquino stated several times that he felt both restless and a little useless because he was so far away from the center of his concerns. "My place is in the Philippines that is where I belong," he said, adding that "while my stay here has been invaluable for the time it has given me to think and talk with others. This is not the place I can do the most good...
...affair with Alex. Sam (Tom Berenger), once a Movement rhetorician, went to Hollywood and became the macho private eye in a hit TV series, which one of his pals describes as "a sitcom with a machete." Karen (JoBeth Williams), who used to be a closet poet, is now the restless wife of an ad executive. Michael (Jeff Goldblum) made Alex famous by writing about him in the Michigan Daily; now he profiles 14-year-old blind baton twirlers for PEOPLE and tries vainly to assign himself a story on the lost hope he sees around nun this weekend. "You think...
...passions. JoBeth Williams can say more by directing her big sad eyes off-screen than volumes of Emily Dickinson; in Mary Kay Place's squint is the weather-beaten humor of a career woman who wants an emergency jolt of motherhood; William Hurt's eyes move like restless laser beams; Tom Berenger's search the room in masked desperation, trying to crib emotions from his quicker, less guarded friends. No joke or gesture is forced in these performances. The eight star actors deserve one big Oscar...