Word: restlessness
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President Pusey, an honored guest and speaker at Brown, waited with the restless crowd of 4800 for the President's arrival...
...contact with the audience was almost perfect and in his control at all times. When he noticed in Hartford that the crowd was restless, he stopped and asked "Are you listening?" The mob roared back that they were
...deep into the bush around Nairobi to trap her trophies but found them already wrapped, breast-high, around the ladies in the mud huts. To them, the kikoi was only a brightly colored piece of cloth, good enough to wear to market, but nothing a native would get restless about. Stunning, thought Jenny Bell, and bought some, intending to turn them into tablecloths. But back in Manhattan, she realized that the Kenya hutwives had been right all along: the kikois were dashing as dresses. She ran up a few tentative models, found the response so enthusiastic that...
...restless intellect, Ipousteguy likes to read widely: Proust, Sartre, Salinger, De Maupassant. He is attracted to painters as different as Turner ("He moves me like music") and the Pre-Raphaelites, and at the same time admires Tarzan comic strips. His resulting meditations lead him to jot down thoughts in a notebook. Mostly they are rather enigmatic: "This dirty juice, this thing much sanctified: this wine. This coward, this backward-looking fugitive: this Hero." But sometimes his jottings illuminate his sculptures-his half-noble, half-ridiculous Goliath, his David triumphant but howling with grief. Writes Ipousteguy: "Disfigured-transfigured, disfiguration-transfiguration; this...
...Where a music festival had made us restless...