Word: angst
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...total tranquilizer." Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the cover, is a fitness veteran who started 20 years ago with the Royal Canadian Air Force routine, and now runs regularly, though briefly. Says he: "Running, in any sport, is unquestionably the best way to dispel free-floating angst...
...have been announced, including one potential gem that begins previews next week: Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Hal Prince and based on the 1934 Kaufman and Hart comedy. With Company, Follies and Sweeney Todd, Sondheim and Prince yanked the Broadway musical into the Age of Angst. This time they have dared to move backward?to tell a story in song of some ambitious young people in reverse chronological order...
...does the movie version, with Robert Duvall as Tom and Robert De Niro as Des, proceed at the sluggish pace of a Sodality novena? Perhaps because Dunne's collaborator on the screenplay was his wife, the Empress of Angst, Novelist Joan Didion. Onscreen, characters who should percolate with rage simply simmer. Two exciting, dangerous actors have little to do: Duvall spends too much time pacing and waiting; De Niro's big scene has him hanging up his vestments...
...characters on yet another tour between Terre Haute and hell, with nobody quite able to tell the difference? It may be practice, it may be panic. It may even be genius. Whatever his secret, the author of Sauce for the Goose again earns the degree of Master of Antic Angst...
...chapters of the Social Democrats have already tried to do so in Baden-Württemberg and in South Hesse. But while Schmidt is feeling the strain, he is still fighting. Says he: "Do not be deceived by the activities of the young socialists, and do not overestimate them. Angst has become chic. There is no doubt that the majority of [West] Germans and a large majority of the S.P.D. support our foreign and security policies...