The breakthrough came in 1998 (his final year at university), when a series entitled Cinema 100 was published by Pulp Faction in an anthology called Five Uneasy Pieces.
He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of several books on international affairs and human rights, including Problems of Protection: The UNHCR and Refugees at the Beginning of the 21st Century and Five Uneasy Pieces: American Ethics in a Globalized World.
The speech rhythms, mirrored in the string writing, give the piece its uneasy spikiness.
Mr. Naharin, the director of Israel's Batsheva Dance Company, offered a glimpse of what to expect during his company's season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (April 30 and May 2 to 4) with "Minus 7," a hilarious audience-participation piece with uneasy undertones.
Likened by Mr. Rouse in a program note to a grand mal seizure and uneasy even in repose, the piece is unsparing in its demands for pinpoint accuracy, sudden dynamic contrasts and clear articulation.
The director is Thea Sharrock, whose recent film of Shakespeare's "Henry V" for the BBC recast a putative exercise in historical jingoism as a contemplative piece about an uneasy king's relationship with God.
I read the title of this piece and feel uneasy.
The applause was warm, but the crowd knew what it had seen: an uneasy wrestling match between a period piece and the way we live now.
It has no more moral intelligence than the Clint Eastwood action pictures, yet it's an astonishing piece of work, an uneasy mixture of violent pulp and grandiosity, with an enraptured view of common life — poetry of the commonplace.
