Word: restlessness
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...union households in June; Ralph Nader was attracting enough lefties and anti-globalists and environmentalists to tip states like Wisconsin and Oregon into Bush's column. Gore's advisers argued that they would have to rebuild the Democratic coalition bloc by bloc, first the night-shift waitresses, then the restless middle class, then finally make a run for the soccer moms. "Look, he wasn't exciting anyone," says a senior Democratic strategist. "He had nothing left to lose. Hell, [populism] was the only thing he could do to excite people...
Early in the concert, the audience grew restless as an intrusive camera operator blocked their views of the band and dancers...
...tendency to cross his hands in front of his crotch and sway, as though he just realized he'd been hitting the podium-side water a little too heavily. Sorry to be a broken record, but it reinforced the old stereotypes of each man: Gore as machine, Bush as restless first grader...
...Martin: Look, the world obviously divides into men and women, but I think there?s a bigger category: restless and not restless. The not-restless are my friends who meet their wives when they?re 22, they marry them, and they?re happy. And the restless are unsettled, always looking around the corner, thinking too much. And that crosses the divide between men and women. I?ve met many women who are unmarried, 40s, adopting. I also have a friend who?s been married for a long, long time. He says, "I have no stake in being married...
...decades trying to reunite. Anne Watson is a family-law attorney in Bozeman, Mont., and has served as an administrative judge in divorce cases. She opposes tightening divorce laws out of fear that the truly miserable-- battered wives, the spouses of alcoholics--will lose a crucial escape route. But restless couples who merely need their space, in her opinion, had better think twice and think hard. "If people are divorcing just because of choices they want to make, I think it's pretty tough on the kids," Watson says. "Just because you're going to feel better, will they...