Word: brooding
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...version of pastoral -- a noble-savage counterpoint to the corporate rat race. The myth got lost in the series of unsuccessful movies he made after his greatest, On the Waterfront. Schickel concentrates on how and why this happened to the celluloid Brando, leaving the real-life actor to rut, brood and grow fat in some other, more scandalous, less lucid book...
...most of her dancers are gay. To them she is a doting den mother, turning stern only when things get bitchy. It's a tough job, juggling dozens of fragile egos along with her armored one, but she has balls enough for everybody. The crew is her moody brood, and she is Mama Madonna, single parent...
...Still, I brood about whether I am prepared for the horrors of what will come next, either the carnage of a ground war or the full revelation of civilian casualties within Iraq and Kuwait. Despite my informed consent as a citizen, a wave of queasiness hit me with the first air strikes against Baghdad. But then the euphoric opening days of the war made it seem as if America had perfected the neutron bomb in reverse: high-tech weaponry that only destroyed buildings, while leaving people miraculously unharmed. Even now, after more than a week of war, the cameras have...
...gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even a group portrait of the all-suburban family. And how pleased Edward is to be a guest of this brood -- especially since it includes teenage Kim (Winona Ryder), to < whom Edward will give his love as soon as he stops giving her the creeps...
...comes TV's latest hit family, The Simpsons. Here the characters are animated but still a grungy, bickering lot. "Sometimes I think we're the worst family in town," says Dad gloomily. His solution is to drag his brood to a therapist, who hooks them up to electrodes as part of behavior- modification treatment. Result: they start giving one another electric shocks...