Word: self-doubt
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America, the proudest nation in the 1950s, later slouched into self-doubt, and Lemmon boldly charted that course onscreen. He demonstrated, for an audience not always eager to hear it, the poignant truth of Joe E. Brown's flippant observation to Lemmon at the end of Some Like It Hot: "Nobody's perfect." Jack Lemmon wasn't either, but he had one great American trait--bravery--that served him well as deft comedian and slapstick tragedian, cunning artist and surpassing entertainer...
...meant to be a heroine or an example. She's meant to be a tragicomic sister to those of us who prefer to take our lumps with a dose of (albeit slightly hysterical) laughter, and who choose to see the humor in the long and arduous journey from self-doubt to self-acceptance. After all, if you can't laugh at yourself, someone else will be more than happy to take over...
...says. "He thought it was minimalist in its healing and outreach. And the moves that they made to start the transition, I don't think he felt they were necessarily playing by the same set of rules." What Gore never expressed, aides say, was the kind of recrimination and self-doubt they had heard from him in other difficult times of the near past--during the campaign-finance scandals of 1996, Bill Clinton's impeachment, the dark early days of his own presidential quest. Old friends in Tennessee told the New York Times that Gore was haunted by the fact...
...laugh at Puck, but rather we laugh along with him. His misfortunes--academic stress, romantic ineptitude and jealousy of a too-perfect roommate--touch on our own carefully guarded sentiments. And interspersed among these periods of self-doubt are quiet walks among the leaves, moments of innocent bliss that we, too, can share...
...brimming with confidence. "Making music always does excite me, but I don't know if as a songwriter I have it in me. As an artist--has the format passed me by? Has my age taken me to a place where I can't compete?" If only melancholy and self-doubt made for good country music...