Word: claustrophobia
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...painting in the context of other Lottos, and to find how the peculiar magic of its imagery is distilled from the elegant claustrophobia of his more "normal" work, is not just a pleasure but an education...
...straitjacket. Madeleine (Miou Miou) saw her glamorous first husband die from enemy gunfire in the town square, then fell into a pleasureless marriage with a slimy hustler named Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri). By 1952, when most of Entre Nous takes place, each woman is eager to escape the emotional claustrophobia of cooking the meals, chaperoning the children, counterfeiting passion as Monsieur Wrong rolls toward her in bed. To the anger and chagrin of their husbands, Lena and Madeleine find that ecstatic escape in each other's souls...
...that "any day now" he would marry longtime Girlfriend Jerry Hall, 27, who is seven months pregnant. Then last week the groom-to-be, or not-to-be, made that a question again. "Marriage?" Jagger asked reporters, while vacationing with his love on Barbados. "Definitely not. It gives me claustrophobia...
...thousand social and civic details. They need the neglected a thousand social and civic details. They need the parks and playgrounds and sidewalks that they never got around to building. Their lives are often almost unbearably constricted. They commute two, three or four hours a day to work from claustrophobia-inducing apartments out in suburban regions that look like an interminable Bridgeport smudging into the outskirts of Albuquerque. Some 75% of the population lives in the narrow Pacific corridor from Tokyo to Hiroshima. Land prices are impossibly high (more than $100 per sq. ft. in suburban Tokyo). Newly married couples...
Another examples is Harvey Mudd's new poetry book. The Plain of Smokes, which translates descriptions of Los Angeles into universal messages. Mudd evokes from anyone who has ever felt strongly about a place a whole range of emotions, such as nostalgia and claustrophobia...