Word: angst
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Basinger, whose performance with Sam Shepard in his and Robert Altman's Fool for Love demonstrated that she should be above this stuff, is, thanks to Lyne's directing techniques, able to show the whole range of angst-ridden emotions from fear to guilt-ridden pleasure. But who could fashion a believable role from a script that requires her to suffer the ignominy of being trapped atop a ferris wheel at one moment and to prance down the boardwalk with Rourke as if nothing had happened at the next...
...going to move exams back to make life easier for people who celebrate Christmas, that's discriminating. Better move exams back to November to make Channukah free of worries. Better move them back to October to make Thanksgiving angst-free for secular types. Better move them back to May to make Arbor Day less nerve-wracking...
...only is my drinking rudely interrupted by thoughts of the angst-ridden early writings of pre-war female Ukrainian poets and the exact date of Kandinsky's first non-expressionist painting, but the same people who I dream of torturing in section are getting two extra weeks to screw up the curve. And you can be fairly sure they're not going to lend me the briefcase full of notes they recopied back home under the Christmas tree...
Over figs, white wine, and the traditional runny brie, author Jay McInerney gave a reading at the Harvard Advocate last night of the works that have earned him the sobriquet "chronicler of yuppie angst...
Katt is another matter. Several years ago he brought school-boyish charm to the role of an inept superhero in the short-lived television series The Greatest American Hero. In House, he plays the part of an angst-ridden Vietnam vet with the same schoolboyish charm and humor. Unfortunately, angst and schoolboy don't go well together...