Word: angst
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...getting around it; David Letterman sounds, well, happy for a change. Or, at least, as happy as an insecure, driven, angst-ridden performer with a pathological fear of failure can be. Certainly no one has more of a right to enjoy himself for a spell. For the past two years, Letterman has been the most wrangled-over, gossiped-about, sought-after star in television. When Jay Leno was chosen to succeed Johnny Carson as host of the Tonight Show, it was Letterman, the disappointed office seeker, who drew the sympathy vote. Last fall, when his contract with NBC was coming...
Daddy Dearest, a slightly smarter sitcom about a psychiatrist whose father moves in with him, might be termed Transitional Fox. Casting angst-ridden comic Richard Lewis as the shrink is the sign of a show aiming for a more adult level of relationship comedy. But pairing him with Don Rickles (who barges into his son's group-therapy session to shout racial insults at everybody) puts us squarely back on the Fox buzz...
Soon it's August, and the third, crucial stage kicks in: angst. Only one month left to read everything in the Norton Anthology for generals. One month left to read that book you'd promised that professor you'd read for you thesis...
...events of the past couple of months are summer translations of the same anxieties and paralysis all true Harvard students endure. After three months of this self-induced, Puritan angst, a recognizable patern has emerged...
Lady Henrietta has an eleven year old daughter, Sara, a flaxen-haired nymphet, determined to seduce Jeremy who is initially attracted to her mother and resolutely determined to ignore Sara's persistent advances. Yet he, after much angst-ridden soul searching, reluctantly succumbs to her charms...