Word: restlessness
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From Haiti came tidings of the restless honeymoon of self-satisfied Novelist James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, 33, and his luscious, platinum-tressed bride, Gloria Mosolino, 29, whose previous claim to fame was a brief stand-inship for Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Before going to Manhattan last week to grapple with his publisher, Jones discoursed long and freely about his latest goo-plus-page opus, Some Came Running, due for autumn publication. "The book," crowed Jones, "is 300,000 words longer than Eternity. The last six months I lived on gin and Miltown while finishing...
...sounded like "Gerald McBoing Boing doing a rock-'n'-roll number with a trio called The Three Sunspots," and what Godfrey didn't know was that back home the studio audience was walking out in droves when he tuned in (cracked Hayes: "The natives get restless in the basement"). The great white hunter was undaunted. "I'm going off to shoot lions tomorrow," he signed off. "I'll call you next week. Goodbye and God bless you and give my love to everyone." Adjusting his bush-jacketful of Ban and oleomargarine, he beat back into...
...looked dazed; then the lines of her face altered in a slow, rippling transformation. Her hands dropped lightly from her head to her lap. She relaxed into an attitude of comfort that Dr. Thigpen had never seen before. Her blue eyes opened wide and sparkled. She gave a quick, restless smile. In a bright, unfamiliar voice, she said: "Hi there, Doc!" Everything about her had become coquettishly provocative...
...cover the losses, investigators found, Cage bought up small industrial plants and pumped their profits into ICT, listed questionable assets, at least once reported a loss on a business deal as a profit. Board members finally grew restless with Cage's free-wheeling management, fired him last February...
Only in a Colette novel could such details be touched with innocence and wonder. Like most restless and intelligent adolescents, Claudine seeks knowledge for its own sake. For her, adult behavior is neither good nor evil. It is just continuously absorbing, as the sex life of a lemming might be to a biologist. Similarly, Claudine punches and teases little Luce Lanthenay merely from a clinical desire to discover the effect of such cruelty on herself. All her hyperthyroid activity has but one goal: to make things happen and then study the results...