"It may be a sign of character, not of weakness, to know when you have to ask for help," says Martha Manning, whose book, "Undercurrents," chronicles her depression.
They are father and son, guru and disciple, passionate friends and bitter competitors locked in a relationship whose sexual undercurrents are as palpable and mysterious as the motion of water under the surface of the ocean.
Berlanga, who spent three years as president of Filmoteca Española soon after the dictator Francisco Franco died, is remembered by many for directing masterful comedies whose subversive undercurrents survived Franco's censors.
Despite Judith Kaufmann's glowing urban photography and a marvelous performance from Hannelore Elsner, "Vivere" is a slight story whose raw undercurrents are constantly at odds with its fairy-tale sensibility.
It wasn't the guy I went to high school with whose comments contain an undercurrent of bitterness in which I admittedly delight.
It is also a dramatic return to the public stage by the neoconservatives whose worldview remains a powerful undercurrent in the Republican Party and in the national debate about the United States' relationship with Israel and the Middle East.
When putting together his critically acclaimed neo-noir thriller After Dark, My Sweet, James Foley instructed his casting director to "go find me a Bruce Dern type" for the crucial role of Uncle Bud, a retired cop whose avuncular manner masks an undercurrent of psychosis.
As interesting as the book is, at the same time I felt in it an undercurrent of sadness whose source was hard to trace.
Yes, you could feel them, but they were undercurrents in a concert whose overriding mood was one of joy.
Among the most initially confusing is Lang, a professional charmer whose beaming smiles, with their sinister undercurrent, and fits of rage convey depths that the Ghost soon begins to plumb, an endeavor that takes the shape of an investigation.
