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Schuerman is terrific as the pathetic officer. He seems to slither across the stage with the energy and angst of one self-posessed by his own lousy fate. Karnow's daffyness also brings life to the misguided Poet, who does not understand the meaning of truth (the way most Poets...
Alan Parker' s Angel Heart loses an X rating and saves its gritty soul. -- Some Kind of Wonderful: more teen angst from John Hughes...
...they resurrected Pearl, a script about Janis Joplin, and had it rewritten, Midler says, "as a homage to all those men and women who bit the dust from sheer compulsion." That was The Rose. "I had a ball! I couldn't wait each day to strap on that angst bag and chew up that scenery. I thought it was my best work." Seen today, The Rose looks ragged, with dramatic longueurs randomly interspersed with explosions, but that is part of its surly authenticity. And Midler, deglamourized as Joplin and vulnerable as her own private self, creates a gorgeous image...
Experimental bands keep rock and roll moving forward In the late sixties and early seventies, "art bands" like The Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, and David Bowie emerged. Then punk rock rejuvenated the private angst of teenagers across the western world and rock saw the eruption of new and even more apocalyptic bands such as Joy Division, the Talking Heads ("Remain in Light" era), and especially Bauhaus, led by Peter Murphy...
...campaign trail is directed less at the sometimes bumbling Kohl himself than at what he represents: a newly proud and prosperous West Germany that looks to the future with more confidence than at any other time since World War II. Indeed, the waning of Germany's postwar angst fits perfectly with Kohl's folksy, optimistic style. "I'm convinced that we can solve any problems with reason, courage and patience," he told 5,000 beer- drinking backers at a stop in Passau. "All we need is the inner strength to decide that's what we want...