Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driving cabs at night because he can't sleep and because he can't find a real life. The city won't let him in even though he'd like to conform, and the fever builds first in his belly and then in his head, making him restless like an animal and nervous like a killer. He hates New York with Biblical fury. Its livid neons, the gaudy robes of the pimps, and the twisting, seething shadows obsess him with a vision of hell...
...city of New Haven has an undefeated football team and the men from Yale should be causing their upcoming foes some restless nights. The Bulldogs, after defeating highly regarded Navy last week--a team that lost to fifth-ranked Michigan by only five points--nipped revitalized Holy Cross by a score of 29-28. Holy Cross, if you care to remember, had no trouble in trouncing Harvard, 33-19. Many observers are wondering which teams, if any, can manage to prevent the Elis from capturing the League title for a third consecutive year...
...window of vulnerability" is one of the more intriguing, and unsettling, concepts to occupy the restless minds of defense planners in years. It holds that the increasing size and accuracy of Soviet missiles will soon make the U.S. land-based nuclear force vulnerable to a first strike. Ronald Reagan last week moved to close that window, slowly, but serious doubts remained about whether he had succeeded...
Michelangelo Antonioni is a restless eminence. For more than 40 years he has been testing the limits of film narrative-as a young critic and documentarist, as a screenwriter in Italy's neorealist cinema, as the director of such parables of alienation as L'Avventura (1960) and Eclipse (1962). And while he expanded the viewer's understanding of the way stories can be told, he helped change the way the world is seen on film. In Red Desert (1964), he reflected the industrial and emotional decay of modern Ravenna in skies streaked like a sulfurous rainbow...
...fiscal worries weren't enough, the University's neighbors grew increasingly restless as the summer wore on. In Boston, the city council passed and Mayor Kevin H. White signed into law new regulations governing recombinant DNA research which will govern, among others, the Med School. And in Cambridge--after decades of attempts--the city government finally gained concrete control over future University expansion, passing a law that subjects Harvard and other large institutions to zoning controls. The law--heralded as the start of a "new era" by city officials--requires city approval of any major developments in residential neighborhoods...