Word: broodingness
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It detailed the relative calm on campus that followed the tide of radicalism of the preceding years. The year 1970 was one of "tension, turmoil, introspection and questioning," the article read. The student population was silent, brooding--and still angry.
What's left is a brooding romantic fantasy. As scripted by Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King), the Madison County movie has a slightly riper theme than the book's. It is about the anticipation and consequences of passion-the slow dance of appraisal, of waiting to make a move that...
Movies based on popular novels are usually doomed before they start, since millions of readers have already cast and filmed the movie in their heads. And director Clint Eastwood's reticent style is the antithesis of Robert James Waller's romantic tale of middle-age passion. As a result, the...
WITH THE PROMISE OF REST (Scribner; 353 pages; $24), a powerful, brooding novel of a father who eases his son's death from aids, Reynolds Price closes a remarkable trilogy that began in 1975 with The Surface of Earth and continued six years later with The Source of Light. As...
What set the Unabomber off in the first place? Experts suspect he had some sort of conflict early in his career, perhaps in college or on the job, and probably with someone involved in computer science. As a result, speculates Rustigan, "he probably disconnected himself and withdrew and started brooding...