Word: angst
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...Meleady), a gay hair dresser, seems to be the most sensible choice, although choosing the worthiest father is apparently not Barbs' chief concern, since eventually the child's paternity will be called into question. Barbs is too selfish and flighty to be taken very seriously by the audience. Her angst is more the product of an impending mid-life crisis than of any serious problem in her life. As her mother, Sadie Kirkwood (Patricia Pellows in a superb performance) points out, Barbs just needs to "lighten...
...Hefner. It's this British band that has five fans in America. They're full of angst and bitterness--so they will fit in well at Harvard. Also, the lead singer is ugly, so he will...
...Marjorie Decker had genuine angst and confusion on her face," he said of her reaction when the roll call to close the mayoral voting was announced...
...Richard, the American abroad, DiCaprio is a young adult, but no less isolated than in his teen-angst films. Here, as in This Boy's Life, he lies in bed listening to a couple next door banging away at their amours. A madman on the other side of the wall, named Daffy (Robert Carlyle), leaves Richard a map to the treasure island. When he and the couple, Francoise (Virginie Ledoyen) and Etienne (Guillaume Canet), trek to the hidden beach, Richard is happy to fit in with the communers, even with the strict rules enunciated by Sal (Tilda Swinton), the camp...
...becoming a lifelong process--it's not just for Holden Caulfield anymore. Teenagerhood as preparation for life makes no sense when the life being prepared for resembles the one you've been living all along. Meanwhile, teenagers are discovering that there are medical ways to escape the angst part of growing up. Why have an existential crisis if you can be on Prozac? If current trends in psychiatry keep up, there won't be a drug or a diagnosis that kids and their parents won't be able to share. But a teenager on Prozac is not a teenager...