"They just don't lay down and whine and experience this weird middle-class malaise," argues Mark.
Nobody drowns in "The Graduate" (1967) or "The Swimmer" (1968), two documents of 1960's middle-class malaise.
The pancake makeup and wigs can't compete with Mueck's higher-tech effects, but the figures' uncanny presence and sad-sack, working-class malaise still resonate deeply.
Mom and especially Dad -- once known as Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible -- are stuck in a midlife, middle-class malaise until a supervillain named Syndrome emerges to call them back to their old identities.
The play, which runs through Saturday at the Chashama Theater, at 135 West 42nd Street in Manhattan, tells the tale of the 16-year-old Wynne Ledbetter, a video-game-playing prodigy whose efforts to save his family from lower-class malaise include being abused by a pedophile, rescuing his prostitute sister from drugs and fighting in hand-to-hand combat.
And the steak tartar wasn't bad, either.
Coming soon to a federal courthouse near you--a chilling complement to our economic malaise: class actions against financial institutions, which will add to our economic woes.
It described a visit to a behaviorally engineered community where jealousy, malaise and class struggle had been replaced by rewarding work and unlimited artistic expression.
Despite the talk in the 2012 U.S. presidential election of the disappearing middle class, and the economic malaise all around the globe, by 2025 it's possible that most of the world's population is marching towards a more prosperous future: a majority will be in the "middle class," thanks to the emerging markets.
Democrats have been given a unique opportunity to pass legislation that will help the nation and begin healing the middle-class and our economic malaise.
