Word: restlessness
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...scene: a squalid apartment. The cast: a restless, repulsive twenty-something and his friend and lovers. The mood: boiling over with directionless anger and intellectual energy, yet surprisingly static. What is this? "Reality Bites"? "The Real World...
...Restless, reckless and tired of being rebuffed, Saddam Hussein once again looked poised to carry out an epic feat of self-destruction. By sending 20,000 fresh troops to breathe heavily across Kuwait's border and then withdrawing them after America clenched its fist, he managed to remind the world that he was a loose cannon, derail the momentum toward lifting the U.N. sanctions that are bleeding his people dry and burnish the prestige of an American President sorely in need of a foreign-policy success. "It was a godsend," said a U.N. diplomat at the Security Council. Exulted...
Leibovitz's legacy is a politics--indeed a world-view--that is idiosyncratic, defiant and ultimately restless. His life was devoted to an assault on the dangers of ideology, both secular and religious...
...caretaker leader Sylvestre Ntibantunganya attempts to placate the Tutsi opposition and restless army, his perceived weakness has encouraged violence from extremists on both sides. Since the failed coup, neighborhoods in Bujumbura have split into ethnic enclaves where residents are forced to travel through enemy territory to go to work or shop. Buses had to be hired to move people around safely. Ethnic violence this month alone has left nearly 20 dead, including a United Nations staff member...
...movie theaters, no shopping malls, not even a McDonald's or a Wal-Mart. In fact, business in Lake Providence, Louisiana, is so bad that even the pawnshop has shut down. "The only recreation we have," says a resident, "is poor people's fun: drinking, drugs, fighting and sex." Restless teenagers mill around narrow streets lined with burned-out houses and dilapidated trailer parks. "We've got all the problems they have in New York and Chicago, but nothing to fight them with," says Mayor James W. Brown Jr. If there is a poorer place in America, the Census Bureau...