Word: restlessness
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...shrewd detective named Patrick Birse -- called Buddha because he looked like one -- persuaded him to turn. The author's tough, believable account of their edgily trustful relationship offers no solutions at all to the gang problem facing most of the nation's cities. But it does suggest why a restless man might become a detective, and why a bright, rootless boy might take shelter with a tribe of homicidal children...
...second Rupert byte, if Shawcross can be believed, is that this restless entrepreneur, who controls so much of what the world reads and watches, seems to be utterly banal of mind. Apart from the family he dotes on, Murdoch apparently has no interests other than minding his properties and seeking new ones...
...country; by the time he was 32, this self-taught naturalist had produced the definitive guide Wildlife in America. Already, too, he was showing that he needed a lot of space, and wilderness, and clean water. His early novel Raditzer is an almost allegorical tale of a restless, artistically minded son of wealth -- Charlie Stark -- who goes to sea "unable to answer his own questions, and nursing ill-defined resentments" and finds himself irresistibly drawn to an orphaned ne'er-do-well who seems his shadow self. By the time of his next novel, At Play in the Fields...
Maybe so. But 17 years ago, in a talk with TIME, he used almost exactly the same words. And so one is left with the noble, and slightly poignant, image of a restless, ambitious, complex man trying and trying for simplicity. "There's a line in Turgenev," he says, "in Virgin Soil, that absolutely haunts me. It's a suicide note, and the entire note is, 'I could not simplify myself.' What an arrow through the heart...
DAVID LETTERMAN, after a decade as host of the funniest hour on TV, begins to feel restless in his late-late (12:35 a.m. est) time slot. But when the job he covets -- host of the Tonight show -- becomes available, it goes to Jay Leno. With his NBC contract expiring next spring, Letterman hires a new agent, Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, and starts entertaining offers. Everyone from the Fox Network (which wants to team Letterman in a late-night bloc with Chevy Chase) to major syndicators like Viacom (which offers Letterman additional exposure on its cable networks...