Word: restlessness
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...other Rebel Highway films hunker down to more serious matters of turf marking and pubescent angst. Motorcycle Gang revs up real terror, as some wild ones kidnap a restless girl and her dad gets really mad. Roadracers is a hyperkinetic assault on good manners. Dragstrip Girl, a Cal-Mex remake of Rebel Without a Cause, stars Natasha Gregson Wagner (Natalie Wood's daughter) as a bored teen lured by a handsome Chicano's threat and thrill. Confessions of a Sorority Girl uncovers the black-satin double-dealing of a teen queen spurned. Girls in Prison, with a script co-written...
...higher offers for QVC from telephone companies and other cable concerns. And even if no one else comes along, Diller can console himself with the $100 million or so that he stands to make by selling his QVC holdings to Comcast. But that is not likely to calm a restless Diller. "Barry's not a pig," says his close friend Diane Von Furstenberg. "The money is a consequence, but not his first goal. Barry has always fulfilled his dreams...
Before he left the Soviet Union for the U.S. in 1980, Vassily Aksyonov was part of a restless generation of writers chafing at centuries of censorship and inspired by the irreverent styles of the West. The Burn, a novel written in the early '70s and first published in the U.S. after the author's arrival, is his best-known satirical howl against Soviet oppression and conformity. Aksyonov has published other books in exile, but now, after a decade of personal and artistic freedom, he has written one for the American market. Generations of Winter (Random House; 592 pages; $25) will...
...genteel applause of the faithful at Centre Court. After all, Martina is 37, and the serve no longer sizzles. Wimbledon and its slippery green amalgam of fescue and ryegrass are now the domain of five-time champion Steffi Graf, 25. It's a surface for the young and the restless. On grass either you are quick or you are quickly dismissed...
...past year, the network that Larry Tisch is credited with turning around has experienced positives and negatives in equal measure. CBS had become the first network to lead the ratings in daytime (with hot soap operas like The Young and the Restless), prime time (with aging but still potent shows like 60 Minutes and Murphy Brown) and late night (with the boffo debut of David Letterman). But its triumphs on the air were clouded by fiascos in the conference rooms. Losing the affiliates to Fox was only part of it. The Eye web had fumbled its rights to N.F.L. games...