Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan move benefited exactly one U.S. firm: Milwaukee's Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Harley, perhaps best known for its big-engine "hogs," is the sole remaining U.S. manufacturer of the two-wheeled machines that have long been synonymous with American rebelliousness, restless individualism and the freedom of the endless highway...
...pressures which a tradition of delinquency and a riddling class structure put on youth Broken homes, severe wounds. Murder and tragedy come as brutal but regular doses of hard living rather than critical plot developments. With emotional and physical hardships so commonplace, any period of healing is only a restless interlude before the next spat of marauding violence. When Johnny (Ralph Macchio) sleepily confides. "I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me at least he knows I'm there," the line is both gut-wrenching and believable. With desolation a staple, a bit of fisticuffs...
...college, is an adulterous grouch; her two children do not offer quite enough challenge; her life is in limbo. So she tumbles into a lesbian affair with her night-school professor, Ruth (Jane Hallaren), to whom fond Lianna is the adoring, precocious student. Is Lianna in love or just restless? Does the affair represent an irrevocable change in her sexual preference or just a detour? Is the discovery of herself worth the loss of family and best friends...
...dancers, however, are getting restless. We are still marathon innocents, and are actually anxious to end the speeches and start the music. And at last, once children from Jefferson Park have performed a choreographed dance to the theme from Fame, the disco bacchanalia begins...
Then Wheeler quit, hanging up his skates in favor of tennis. Ever restless, though, he used the athletic ability which made him the leading scorer for Exeter hockey his junior year (50 points in 22 games) to take charge of the squash team as its MVP his senior year. As a Harvard junior, Wheeler just plays hockey--Providence's Proulx found that out the hard way last night at Bright...