Word: misunderstoodness
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...another case. I wanted to scream, 'This is not just another case! This is Sept. 11!'" Months later Feinberg says, "I would have done some things differently," though he doesn't elaborate on exactly what. Dede Feinberg, Ken's wife of 27 years, believes her husband's demeanor was misunderstood. "He tries to give off this attitude of strength because he wants to be somebody you can believe in to pull this whole thing together," she says. "Unfortunately, people don't know him, and this gets perceived as cynical or flippant. It's not. It's just a survival technique...
...Madame-Bovary-hits-the-strip-mall tale The Good Girl, White gives the misunderstood-author type another twist, making Jake Gyllenhaal's Holden both a genuinely tortured soul and a childish poseur. It's that tension--between satire and empathy, pathos and bathos--that gives White's scripts their characteristic discomfiting humor. "Most comedies are so insubstantial that I come out feeling kind of empty," says White. "I feel it's sad to leave all the great themes of drama to the dramatists." White's upcoming movie, The School of Rock (starring Jack Black), is likewise a comedy...
...that, however, I quickly realized the extent to which those British concerns were no different than the ones I thought I had left behind. Europe really does pivot around America, and I saw just how tense and problematic that role makes our relationships with other countries. Americans are dangerously misunderstood in Europe, to be sure, and far more ominously, we Americans understand very little about ourselves...
...sudden as it was suspect, the board reversed itself. Today, I'm torn between two visions of Messier. First, I see a Shakespearean character: he rose swiftly, lost everything, was betrayed by his peers and stabbed in the back by his own corporate family, eviscerated by the market and misunderstood by all. But he will quickly rise again - stronger, more determined and bent on buying up Mickey Mouse and McDonald's to create a planetary holding that will reveal to the world the obvious synergies between the mouse and fast food. The other interpretation is Messier as Tartuffe: after rapidly...
...relief [HEALTH, June 10]. The anxiety disorder is one of the last mental-health taboos because others, such as depression and bipolar disorder, have received a lot more attention in recent years. And the taboo seems to be rooted in the belief that anxiety conveys a weakness; it is misunderstood and not taken seriously. Your report will help sufferers enormously. STEPHEN J. FITZMARTIN Philadelphia...