Word: angst
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...requirement of the Ford Foundation headquarters, as Roche saw it, was to overcome the institutional confines of the modern office, with its angst-inducing anonymity. Roche's solution was to group the offices around an inner court, which Critic Ada Louise Huxtable has called "a horticultural spectacular and probably one of the most romantic environments ever devised by corporate man." Across this court, office workers are aware of one another. It inspires a sense of being a working family...
This collection of 19 short stories may surprise readers who have been led to think that all fictional California women are angst-ridden, sex-crazed or mellowed-out. As she has done in four novels and an earlier collection of stories, Author Alice Adams, 55, continues to specialize in heroines who cannot be hyphenated. Most of the ones in To See You Again live in San Francisco (as does Adams), but they are there because of job opportunities and pleasant surroundings, not drugs, macrobiotics or hot tubs. Surrounded by hedonistic enticements, they still experience the tugs of conscience. They...
...Ganz and Schygulla crawling along what seems to be a dark passageway. Actually, they are dragging themselves along the carpeted floor of her mansion into the bedroom where they will fiddle as Beirut burns. There is no suspense, no tension in this film only the sustained drone of suppressed angst. Circle of Deceit lacks the mythic color and intensity of Schlondorff's best-known film The Tin Drum. Where the bizarre fantasy of The Tin Drum terrifies and disgusts, the efficient realism of Circle of Deceit fades into ennui. Both movies bear Schlondorff's unmistakable brass-knuckle touch...
...narratives of "Divorces I Have Known." They are short stories told to him by friends, colleagues and garrulous strangers, tales of grieving women and domineering men, icy wives and bewildered husbands, doomed love, inexplicable marriages, and acrimonious separations. None of them has the immediacy of the author's angst and the ultimate drab effect is of trite case studies masquerading as literature...
...playwright summoning up Irish Brooklyn and the 1930s--should not be enough to warrant the unfavorable critical reaction the play has drawn. Sure, the effect on audiences is anything but the slick, lively finish that spells success for so many current musicals; nor does Alfred go in for the angst-packed, Freud-packed soul-searching that makes "serious" drama like Equus or Children of a Lesser God powerful. His tools are different...