Word: angst
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...become the designer jeans of the art industry. Thus one tends to bring mingled curiosity and skepticism to the shows by German painters that have filled half a dozen Manhattan galleries in recent weeks. The neoexpressionists are presented as missionary confreres: burning with social idealism and certified angst, robed in rough paint (crudity equals sincerity) and the turgid hyperbole of German critics. Their work is meant to evoke the fervor and spiritual elevation of German art in the '20s-Nolde, Beckmann, Kirchner, Macke. If only it could! What we get, it turns out, is more art about art about...
...GERMANS: Teutonic angst, presumably, makes the Germans the gloomiest about their health. They worry about job security and promotion and are least proud of their nationality. Additionally, West Germans indicate that they are the most intolerant toward extremists on the right and left, foreign workers, cult religions and even heavy drinkers...
...conventional arms. The driving force of the movement is a feeling that Europeans have lost control of their future, that they could be incinerated in a war between the superpowers. In West Germany, the starkest of the protest slogans hits closest to the gut of the matter: ICH HABE ANGST (I am afraid). It is a feeling being articulated across Europe by a frightened young generation, and by its elders...
Twice upon a time there were terrific child actors: Margaret O'Brien in '40s movies and Billy Gray on '50s TV. O'Brien's sad-eyed face, a Keane portrait with angst, told moviegoers that even if Phyllis Thaxter were your mother or Judy Garland your big sister, childhood could be an unending melotrauma of nightmares and broken ideals. Gray was the winsome lad, then the sturdy teen-ager of Father Knows Best; he navigated adolescence like a middle-class Huck Finn. O'Brien and Gray were natural, winning, resourceful actors who took both...
...Novelist Jim Harrison (Farmer, Legends of the Fall). His mock hero, Johnny Lundgren, nicknamed Warlock, is a reluctant Swedish-American gumshoe who has been fired from his job as a foundation executive. He flees to the comforting semi-poverty of rural northern Michigan where irrelevance turns to comic Scandinavian angst. Trysts in his overheated Subaru prove difficult; his forays at gourmet cooking are disasters; insolvency threatens. Then, in the nick of time, Lundgren's wife Diana gets him a job with Dr. Rabun, a prosthetic Edison who designs sexual aids that imitate the motion of swimming porpoises. The doctor...