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Sports Editor's Note: This Crimson Sports Cube Classic appeared in the January 24 issue of the Crimson. It is, to this day, the consummate expression of a Sports Editor' angst...
...film revolves around the driven Johnny, played magnificently by David Thewlis, who unexpectedly arrives in London to surprise his ex-girlfriend, Louise (Lesley Sharp) and proceeds to upset everyone he meets. Johnny epitomizes the lost, melancholy yet erudite state of existential angst as it stands in modern society. He "exercise" his frustrations through rough, violent sex with the random people he finds, including Louis's dark-headed, punk roomate, Sophie. Of course, Sophie and Johnny get together within the first few minutes of the film, even before Louise gets home from work, Sophie ,without any sort of guidance...
Topics range just as broadly as in more elaborate drama, from the orphanage hardships of Boys Town to the comic angst of Jewish suburbia, from Edith Wharton's frustrated sex life to Lynn Redgrave's thwarted longing for her father's esteem, from the Los Angeles riots to personal calamities of illness and grief. Actors vary from the well-established (Redgrave, three-time Tony Award winner Irene Worth and Regina Taylor of TV's I'll Fly Away) to the + succes d'estime (Eric Bogosian, Anna Deavere Smith) to the yearning-for- discovery (Sherry Glaser, Claudia Shear, Barnaby Spring). Some...
...Raygun Malkmus addressed this problem, admitting that when he recorded this album he didn't have anything "poetic and beautiful to say, and I wasn't having girl-friend problems." He just didn't have the inspiration, I guess; the best moments are those that reveal a vague angst, best summed up in the melancholy chorus of "Range Life": "If I could settle down, then I would settle down." On paper it looks pretty straightforward, but in the song, with a changing melody over changing chords, it comes out as a tragic epiphany...
Some tension is inevitable, but much of the angst that first-years are feeling can be avoided. Too many first-years start thinking about possible roommates too early. This misguided foresight results in two very common scenarios...