Word: restlessness
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...Mediterranean. By placing his characters in this dead volcano. Antonioni clearly intends to suggest that they are spiritually extinct. The walking dead are idle-rich Italians, members of a yachting party, who lie sunning like lizards on the lava shelves. Anna (Lea Massari), the vivid brunette, is a restless little disperata who finds her life empty and is sick of filling it with sex. Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), Anna's handsome lover, is a successful architect in his early 405 who can't imagine why anything more than sex is necessary-except of course money. Claudia (Monica Vitti), Anna...
Broken Life Savers. After an hour inside the sausages, the passengers-who, after years of similar grinding up, are normally calm in such circumstances-began to get restless. Some climbed out and began walking toward the nearest street. Others read and reread their papers, checked the contents of their dispatch cases for minor work undone. Poker and bridge games flourished and waned as some players ran out of money. The thirsty on trains carrying bar cars wedged there into one solid mass, and after all the good stock was gone, they were reduced to drinking warm beer. On one train...
...special mention. He suggested that U.S. funds in Poland could be used for "projects of peace that will demonstrate our abiding friendship for and interest in the people of Poland." Among the shackled satellites of Eastern Europe, Poland, which is 98% Roman Catholic, has long been the most restless...
Despite public professions of satisfaction with his new job of Vice President. Lyndon Baines Johnson is restless-and the President of the U.S. knows it. Johnson's trips "downtown" were so frequent (19 in ten days) that President Kennedy assigned him a suite in the Executive Office Building, thus giving Johnson a fourth office to add to his two in the Senate Office Building and one in the Capitol. Kennedy also added another job to Johnson's bulging portfolio, appointing him the head of the new President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a high-powered group...
Land himself never got a college degree. While a freshman at Harvard, he got the inspiration for the first practical material to polarize light (a transparent plastic sheet), left school for three years to perfect it. When he returned. Harvard gave him a laboratory to work in, but restless Din Land passed up a degree, left school to make his polarizers and carry on research. His chief aim was to sell Detroit on a system of polarized auto windshields and headlight lenses that would take the glare out of night driving. The industry never accepted the idea, but Land...