Word: restlessness
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...APPARENT new unity of the band makes the recent death of drummer Keith Moon that much more tragic. Moon was always best known as the scourge of hotel managers across the world, but he was also one of the few rock drummers with a distinctive style--a feverish, restless beat that must have reflected his self-consuming way of life...
...Hutton, Mia Farrow, Geraldine Chaplin, Desi Arnaz Jr., Amy Stryker, Paul Dooley, various veterans of his stock company and a title card full of newcomers. They are all wonderful. If someone deserves to be singled out, it is Carol Burnett, who plays the bride's up tight but restless mother. For her to appear in this film took guts; for her to play her part with such total commitment to its pathetic absurdity is an act of courage...
...were gone, fired by the Shah. But Talbott found no shortage of political leaders to interview in neighboring Pakistan; they were alarmed by the plight of the beleaguered Shah and the possibility of Soviet intervention. Brelis, meanwhile, went off to the Iranian city of Qum, seat of the restless Shi'ite sect, for talks with rebelling Muslim leaders...
...Only two other cadets, one of them Robert E. Lee, had ever received higher grades at the Point. His contemporaries regarded him with awe, and pictures from the time show why. Lean and handsome, with a beaklike nose, he radiated confidence and authority. But peacetime Army life made MacArthur restless and insubordinate. "It's the orders you disobey that make you famous," he told one officer...
...Brook, NJ. A flamboyant showman, Trefflich built a million-dollar-a-year business selling exotic creatures from his four-story Lower Manhattan menagerie to scientists, moviemakers and carnival hucksters. Among his sales: Tarzan's chimp Cheetah and the monkeys used in breakthrough Rh (rhesus) factor research. Occasionally a restless snake would escape from Trerflich's store; once 100 monkeys created harmless havoc on Wall Street and made the headlines. Trefflich claimed the escape was accidental; skeptics abounded...