Word: angstful
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...squeamish in showing the eroticism that once was crucial to the genre. The generation of "kids with beards," as Billy Wilder called Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese, took their cues from a wide range of movie sources - Saturday-matinee serials, John Cassavetes improv dramas, European angst-athons - and if they got excessive, it was in kitsch and violence, not sex. Rodriguez got some puffs of grindhouse steam going in Sin City; but here, he and Tarantino are as puritanical as their predecessors. All bang-bang, no French kiss-kiss...
...next book, which will focus on the role of “movies as political events and political events as movies” in the 1950s. Hoberman, a visiting lecturer on visual and environmental studies, said the book will focus on the films that he believes reflect the angst that gripped America during that decade. The book will be a prequel to his 2003 work “The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties.” “I focus on movies that have a greater degree of intentionality,” Hoberman...
...following morning, I found myself describing the premise for this column in the midst of a typical “I have too much to do” grievance. Varun, one of my ever-supportive roommates, tried to defuse my angst, commenting: “It’s okay man, no one’s going to read or care about blues anyway.” Ah, sweet relief...
...academic angst fly—at least at Princeton, where students are now free to criticize their professors through a new Web site that allows undergraduates to e-mail feedback anonymously to their professors. Since the site went live on Feb. 19, it has received about five to seven comments for professors each day, said Princeton’s student government president, Robert D. Biederman. According to Biederman, comments submitted to the site are reviewed by student government representatives to ensure no hostile or coarse language is used, and they are then forwarded to the intended professor. Biederman said yesterday...
MOST IRAQIS, CAUGHT UP IN THEIR OWN terrors, have little time for the angst of the wider Islamic world. Those who can look past the daily horrors see an even more frightening future, in which their children carry today's hatreds into the next generation. With thousands being killed on either side, the nationalist, secular slogans that were long taught in Iraq's schools have lost much of their meaning. And children do not get too many lessons in secularism at home. "When we were kids, my parents taught us that Shi'ites had the wrong idea about Islam...