Word: restlessness
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...meeting lasted some forty-five minutes. As the conversation went on, the senior aides began to get restless, and Somoza said that he did not want to hold up their departure...
...gold had been found beneath its soiled beaches. Downtown real estate values have soared 200% or more as speculators and promoters of every ilk and bilk rush to make the démodée dowager a belle again ?and so prepare to wring the belle of millions of restless Eastern betting chips expected to wind up cozily close to home. "Most people can't afford to go to Vegas," notes one booster, already trying to one-up Nevada. "Anyway, who needs sunshine in a casino...
...than their proctors. They now face, as one relieved proctor note, "fewer demands to serve as entertainers than last year"--which gives them more time to themselves. The decline in the number of tire-throwing binges, attempted swan dives off the third floor bannister, and other favorite pastimes of restless former residents is also a lot less trying for the proctors. Muller, whose country boy impulsiveness occasionally led him to join in the good times last year, still notes without regret that "the level of hell-raising is a lot lower during the peak-load times...
...once does this slightly preposterous histriography descend to boffo-ness. With a less surrealistic touch Borowczyk maintains the same tenor of classy send-up that Bunuel attained throughout most of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Dissected a bit more, the whole business might be interpreted as a restless and repressed Victorian fantasy. But let's refrain from spoiling with pretentious theories a film that makes such good fun of its own pretentious style. Call Story of Sin a paean to romanticism in reverse. And take with a grain of salt its subject matter: the exquisite fruitness...
...devote their energies to such sedentary tasks as clipping coupons and collecting Chinese snuff bottles. Not Daniel K. Ludwig. At 79, he is a veteran of seven decades of business; he started at the age of nine by scraping together $25 to buy a sunken boat. Now a restless recluse with a fortune worth perhaps as much as $3 billion, Ludwig continues to expand his shipping-based business colossus into new areas. Besides his National Bulk Carriers, Inc., which with 49 vessels operates one of the world's largest tanker fleets, Ludwig's interests now include ranching in Venezuela, mining...