Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama Kramer vs. Kramer, lawyers have been shaking their heads. Their plaint is not that the couple's attorneys in the film are the least appealing characters since the Wicked Witch of the West, but that the courtroom scenes are legally out of date. Meryl Streep, playing a restless housewife trying to find fulfillment, has walked out on her marriage to Dustin Hoffman, a hustling young Manhattan adman, leaving him with their young son; 18 months later she wins custody of the child despite the husband's devotion to the boy during her long absence. In the real...
...exotic characters. Novelist Keeble, 35, a teacher and rancher from Medical Lake, Wash., is out to evoke an entire region. His eastern Washington, "a country of high desert, sage brush, pine, rivers and basalt extrusion," is a palimpsest of Indian legend, the ragged footprints of pioneers and the restless ghosts of Joaquin Miller, Frank Norris and Jack London...
...despite my full recognition of the terrible conditions of life in the Soviet Union, though far less terrible than in Stalin's era so that we know more about them and have more contact. Dissidents are allowed to leave, rather than being executed. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union faces a restless internal population, even less productive than we Americans, notably in agriculture; it faces possible dissension of its Moslem and other minorities which grow in numbers in the way growing, but more dangerously as it is allied with Moslem nationalism elsewhere. It faces the restless "people's democracies," and much...