Word: angst-ridden
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This collection of 19 short stories may surprise readers who have been led to think that all fictional California women are angst-ridden, sex-crazed or mellowed-out. As she has done in four novels and an earlier collection of stories, Author Alice Adams, 55, continues to specialize in heroines who cannot be hyphenated. Most of the ones in To See You Again live in San Francisco (as does Adams), but they are there because of job opportunities and pleasant surroundings, not drugs, macrobiotics or hot tubs. Surrounded by hedonistic enticements, they still experience the tugs of conscience. They...
Alexander Main is not only well into middle age, he is working his way past it. Like most middle-agers-at least the ones who appear in movies and are usually portrayed, as here, by Jack Lemmon -Alex is disgruntled, angst-ridden, desperate and about dead-ended. His life is a crumbling edifice that needs some heavy restoration work. What it gets, instead, is a demolition job in the person of one Maritza (Geneviéve Bujold), an aggressively nubile gypsy. You know the type: wild, tough, unconventional, sexy, mystical, earth-spirited-all those things. She also reads palms...
...ballets can be based on Shakespeare's plays. Hamlet Connotations proves that choreographers can make bad ones as well. Set to a trio of astringent pieces by Aaron Copland, Neumeier's stripped-down, expressionistic dance is simplistically Oedipal: Mother Gertrude seems as much in love with her angst-ridden son as he is with her. The pseudomodern choreography is a pastiche of familiar gambits - with a lot of rolling around on the floor, body contractions and angular flexing of arms...
Worn down by the relentless daily grind of hour exams and Sesame Street, angst-ridden undergraduates put in their 12 minute days toward a fading dream of academic success. But rather than sitting around the house dining room Saturday coveting each other's. After Harvard What--wanting more What than you'll ever need; rather than shedding tears for the hamburger grease because of those nagging fears that your major is not where it's at; instead why not take recourse in mass positive action--seize the weekend...
...Pleasence). Goldman has a jigsaw-puzzle personality. He wants only a "kosher" staff around him, yet he indulges in acridly anti-Semitic remarks. With bewildering rapidity, his accented spray of words veers from the clever to the vulgar to the mad. In a sense, Goldman is the kind of Angst-ridden creature a very bright student might have constructed after making a close study of how Harold Pinter fashions his characters. Since Shaw acted the mentally disturbed older brother in Pinter's The Caretaker, the influence is scarcely surprising...