Word: angst
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...like "A weird thing happened/When I went to take a leak ...," the show doesn't have much of anywhere to go. To be sure, Jerry goes to hell in Act II, where he is host of a show featuring Satan and Jesus--but our hearts are still with those angst-filled transsexuals and diaper fetishists back on earth. Bash our tabloid-TV shows all you want, but a little conflict resolution might be nice. --By Richard Zoglin. With reporting by James Graff/Paris and Aisha Labi/London...
...struggle between good and evil is the thundering bass line of the plot, but above it we get the familiar delights of another Quidditch season and the schoolboy angst of the upcoming Ordinary Wizarding Levels (the magical equivalent of the SAT) and the arrival of a female Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. What's more, along with death, sex made its first appearance in Goblet of Fire (those veelas! that Cho Chang!), and Harry--well, let's just say again that he's not a kid any more. And as always, there are glorious glimpses of the wider wizarding...
DIED. GEORGE AXELROD, 81, author of saucy, acerbic plays and screenplays; in Los Angeles. Once a radio and TV writer, he helped set the tone for pop culture's postwar flirtation with infidelity and angst in his Broadway farce The Seven Year Itch. The film version, with Marilyn Monroe, brought him to Hollywood, where he wrote the scripts for Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's and that classic spiked cocktail of melodrama, satire and treason, The Manchurian Candidate. His two films as writer-director, Lord Love a Duck and The Secret Life of an American Wife, are revered by comedy...
...self-discovery. Fewer still if I knew that journey was heading for an existential train wreck. And in the first few pages of Geoff Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It, the warning signs that I am entering an author's exercise in angst-ridden navel gazing are all there. A quote by Nietzsche on the fly page. A preface that starts with a snippet from Auden and ends with a disclaimer: "Everything in this book really happened, but some of the things that happened only happened in my head; by the same token...
...company will stop making "Yes" chocolate bars and lay off 450 people - another rainstorm feeding the flood of 250,000 manufacturing jobs that have been lost in Berlin since German reunification in 1990. With the city's unemployment rate at an astounding 18.4%, a dark mood of pessimism and angst has settled over Berlin as it struggles with a weak global economy, huge debts and unaffordable welfare provisions that have left the city bankrupt. Every month for nearly a year the two biggest problems cited by Berliners have been the threat of unemployment and concern about the city's shaky...