Word: angst
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Some bigwig at Warner Bros. must have been traumatized by a move to the 'burbs; Funny Farm is Warner's third comedy in a year to deal with New Yorkers who find angst in New England. (Another film, Moving, exiled Richard Pryor from New Jersey to darkest Idaho.) But The Witches of Eastwick and Beetlejuice had infernal satire in mind and an intelligent eye for the grotesque. Funny Farm is mostly just a country store stocked with stale notions and antique gags: Mr. Bland Builds His Dream House...
...knows that in Hollywood movies may be the art of the deal, but in Cannes -- where thousands of journalists swarmed around Hearst, Robert Redford and Richard Gere -- movies are the art of the interview. So praise be to Director John Waters, whose catty ebullience suggests Oscar Wilde without the angst. And all hail to David Lean, emperor of the epic, who charmed with his bluff majesty and his tut-tutting about Britain's new "miniature" film industry...
...twelfth novel, British Author and Playwright Fay Weldon has taken a giddy leap back to the fiction style of the 19th century. Enough of angst and ambiguity, of literary experiment. Bring on Trollope's nudging narrator and Dickens' moral confidence. The Hearts and Lives of Men -- surely a Victorian novelist would have come up with a livelier title -- is nonetheless set in modern times, specifically the fast-track London art world of the '60s and '70s. It covers 23 years in the lives of Clifford and Helen Wexford, an attractive, careless pair who marry, remarry, have messy affairs, manage...
...three years in Eliot, with the perennial angst and confusion regarding roommates and such, my roommates and I were comforted to know that someone was actually taking an interest in seeing that the assignment process was not entirely surrendered to the luck of the draw, and that when various roommates did not return from summer vacation for one reason or another, or when they did return unexpectedly, we were able to work things out so that every-one's needs could...
...high school I used to think that it was just my brother revelling in one of the banes of my existence, seeing hair where it just shouldn't be. Hair gives me the willies when it lies around in unusual places, so imagine my angst at having to live daily with a new clump of hair on my toothpaste every morning without fail year after year...