Word: neuroticisms
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Welcome to the world of Bridget Jones, a neurotic 32-year-old publishing lackey whose life would be complete if she could only reduce the circumference of her thighs by three inches (1.5 inches each), visit the gym three times a week (not merely to buy a sandwich) and form...
Bette may be gone, but the star-vehicle sitcom train of 2000-01 sputters on. The always adorable Joan Cusack is betrayed by the relationship comedy Joan, which cranks up her neurotic cuteness to clinically diagnosable levels and plays a little like a live-action version of Cathy. Damon Wayans...
DIED. ARNOLD HUTSCHNECKER, 102, psychotherapist to Richard Nixon whom the President consulted by phone and twice received at the White House; in Sherman, Conn. Nixon first visited the doctor in 1951 for back pain, after reading his book on psychosomatic illnesses. Hutschnecker spoke little of his patient until after Nixon...
Chaudhuri's portraits of the more minor characters in the novel, such as Jayojit's parents, are particularly enjoyable. Jayojit's neurotic mother and reticent father provide a strong backdrop to Jayojit's affinity for life in India. The Chatterjees talk about Jayojit's experiences "abroad" as though he lived...
Growing up in Manhattan, the son of the dentist who invented tooth bonding, Smigel admits to being "a comedy bully." "I came up with funny things that caught on--nicknames and anthropomorphic cartoons and such," he says. "I genuinely liked the people I was making fun of; I just couldn...