Word: broodingness
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Or I think of Jean-Paul, a Haitian-born janitor in one of the local schools. He's a janitor only at night. By day he works an eight-hour factory shift. That leaves eight hours a day, on average, for sleeping, eating, commuting, washing and brooding, as Jean-Paul...
Brooding over a romance gone awry, Thomas Geoghegan wanted to get away from it all. Joining the French Foreign Legion was out, but a roommate talked him into volunteering as an observer at a dissident Mine Workers election. That was in 1972, and the beginning of Geoghegan's love affair...
Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent David Lamb, the author of Stolen Season (Random House; $20), is a middle-age man on the lam from his own life. Rather than acting out his mid-life fantasies with the aid of a red sports car, Lamb buys an RV and sets out...
Since 1985 almost 50 Ethiopians have committed suicide, depressed by both family separations and culture shock. The Ethiopians' ingrained reluctance to complain may also be to blame. Says Samuel: "They hold everything inside, sitting and brooding, until one day they explode." Israeli officials say slightly higher suicide rates are endemic...
There's something rotten in Denmark but, surprisingly, it isn't Mel Gibson as Hamlet. It's director Franco Zefferelli's abbreviated version of this brooding Shakesperean tragedy. Glenn Close and Helena Bonham Carter are splendidly tormented.