Word: restlessness
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...class valedictorian at the State University of New York, Binghamton, in 1968, "when it was full of radicals." The students were throwing off '50s shackles and looking to other cultures for solutions. The Doors' battle cry, "We want the world, We want it now," exhilarated Paglia. After four restless years at Yale getting her Ph.D. in English, she found herself teaching at Bennington...
This helped him get his TV show in 1956 -- he was the first major black entertainer to have a regular network program -- but didn't do a whole lot for him in the jazz community, which had been buffeted by bop and the restless experimentation of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. Cole began to look like a silken technician who'd sold his soul. One of the best things about this Mosaic set is that it helps to correct that impression and shows Cole for the artist he was. He wasn't corrupted by the mainstream. He used...
...love, temptation, loose political parable and tight personal confession. The notes credit all songs to the band collectively -- lead singer Bono of late had taken a separate credit for lyrics -- and Achtung Baby does sound more cohesive than anything else U2 has done. Tunes like The Fly are restless, even reckless, with invention, and the band can write ravishing, slightly eerie romances like Mysterious Ways better than anyone else who can fill a stadium with cheering fans. There's a lot indeed to be cheered on Achtung Baby. And celebrated. It's a monster...
There's only the minor problem--that we're beginning to look less like Sweden and more like a well-mannered Yugoslavia with excellent beer. It's not just the restless Quebecois, but also the West, the Maritimes, and even the Newfies (but of more ethnic/regional jokes than there are buttheads to tell them) are bickering...
OVERSEAS. Three Frenchwomen in postwar North Africa wait for their hearts to tumble and the colonial empire to crumble. This essay in sisterhood marks an assured debut from actress-director Brigitte Rouan. But the big news is Marianne Basler, a stunner, as the most restless of the sisters...