Word: restlessness
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...actions of his friend Fliess, but occurred for other reasons. Freud came to believe that her spells of bleeding were Emma's ways of expressing a longing for his presence. Freud wrote that "her episodes of bleeding were hysterical, were occasioned by longing" and that "she became restless during the night because of an unconscious wish to entice me to go there, and since I did not come during the night, she renewed the bleeding, as an unfailing means of rear-ousing my affection...
...readings and interesting philosophical analysis, but they are difficult to convey successfully even in the small, communal setting d'Estree constructs. We can only endure so many renditions of "O nobly born, do not be afraid" before the intended effect backfires, and as a result we find ourselves getting restless. Even though the show runs for only one hour. Tibetan Book of the Dead at points seems endless...
...lyrical black and white photography of stormy skies, barking dog and the imposing grandeur of the Russian landscape play no small role in the overall success of the film in which visual images rise above the language barrier. King Lear is not suitable viewing material for a restless Saturday night; but for an audience willing to participate actively in the drama, it is nothing short of breath-taking...
Gargano had dropped out of Quincy High School at 17 to join the Marines. After a three-year hitch, he returned home early last year. He did not actively seek a job. "He was restless," says his mother Mary Gargano. "He wanted to get back in the Marines within 90 days so he wouldn't lose his rank." Gargano, then 21, re-enlisted last June. He took part in the Grenada invasion, then was sent to Lebanon. He had been there less than two months when he landed in a helicopter near the temporary U.S. embassy in Beirut. Gunmen...
...Cole Porter, gathered by Musicologist Robert Kimball, is a model of typography, design and scholarship. The oversize book can lie indolently on a piano, ready to recall the hits of four decades. Because shows are arranged in chronological order, the reader can watch Porter's growth from restless experimenter to self-assured master. Early on, the songwriter attempted to overturn the bromides of his epoch. When saccharine "Mammy" tunes permeated Broadway, he celebrated a black man who journeyed back to Tennessee only to miss "the great big tall skyscrapers/ And the elevated's roar,/ And he longed...