In a sense the National Museum of the American Indian is itself an extended installation, though a confused and jumpy one, chopped up with vitrines, benches, partitions, texts, touch screens and so on.
If you can get past the nightmarishly kooky-cute poster and the uncomfortably problematic set-up (jumpy twentysomething runs away from her life for a week-long sleepover with a troubled teen), there are light and fluffy pleasures to be had from this disposable rom-com, entitled Laggies in the US.
The sense of its modern offshoot, not necessarily drug-related, ranges from "edgy, jumpy, uptight" to "pumped up, visibly nervous" to "feverishly excited".
He comes up with jumpy, potentially dissonant motifs — sometimes whistled or hooted on a kazoo — and sets them into repetitive motion or sends them to collide with what arrives next.
In his early days he was so keyed up and jumpy that on road trips Doerr had to take him out in the evenings and, like a hot-walker with a thoroughbred, lead him around and around the block until he was tired enough to sleep.
Markets were in a tizz before the election; the price of insuring against a British government default was jumpy in the run-up to polling day (see chart).
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By Laurie Sheck The New Yorker, July 2 , 1990P. 30 The faces are lifted up into the jumpy light, View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Naomi Fry.
"As we were walking back from trick-or-treating, everyone was getting tired, and she was all jumpy and giggly and keeping up our energy.
It begins with the phrase "The faces are lifted up into the jumpy light" and contains an early reference to "a city that is shadow and glass and shadows of skyscrapered glass, that is steel and more steel and billboards".
