Word: ennui
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...members of Tree, presenting Outstanding New Rock Band (won by Star Ghost Dog and Waltham) certainly appeared to be. Tree waltzed onto stage with plastic cups of beer in their hands, and one particularly rambunctious member leapt off the stage after slurringly (and accurately) accusing the audience of general ennui. The bloke proceeded to jump from chair back to chair back across the first 20 or so rows. Tree had won Outstanding Hardcore/Metal Band earlier in the evening, so they had a reasonably legitimate reason to celebrate. All I know is I still wasn't getting any free Kahlua...
...Vermont. Suffering through classes with unimaginative students and dinners with pedantic colleagues, the disgruntled professor of Francine Prose's abrasively comic new novel, Blue Angel (Harper Collins; 314 pages; $25), can't wait to rush home so he can avoid writing his overdue third novel. In addition to battling ennui, Swenson must also contend with a forbidding campus environment fraught with race and gender minefields...
...brave of Michael Douglas, 55, to play a college professor who looks his age--and feels it. After a decade or so as the suave (or slimy) manipulator dodging a comeuppance from a strong (or psychotic) woman, Douglas renounces sexual energy and latches on to a kind of emotional ennui. In Wonder Boys he's unshaven, bespectacled Grady Tripp, who wrote an acclaimed novel years ago but has been marking time ever since. While working on his next book (he's up to page 2,613), he teaches the creative writing he may no longer be capable of and carries...