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 High Anxiety is a 1977 comedy film directed by and starring Mel Brooks. Veteran Brooks ensemble members Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman and Madeline Kahn are also featured. The film is a parody of and a tribute to the suspense film genre, most obviously... 
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 The Record (Bergen County, NJ) High anxiety
01/11/2008: 383 words, approx. 1 pages The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-11-2008 High anxiety -- No lessons learned by Paramus officials Date: 01-11-2008, Friday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions THE RASH of contamination scares in Paramus has yielded plenty of fodder for free- floating anxiety, but little... summary from source:
The Boston Globe High Anxiety
11/28/2004: 496 words, approx. 2 pages HIGH ANXIETY - Imagine being a teacher standing before a roomful of students every day, asking questions, leading discussions, and prodding them to learn new material. It could bring on some interesting dreams. That's just what Concord-Carlisle High School teacher Elliot Lilien discovered when... summary from source:
 AP News Bush speech comes amid high anxiety
1/29/2008: 950 words, approx. 3 pagesThe state of the union is anxious.In the eighth and final year of George Bush's presidency, Americans have stomach-clenching worries about a recession, soaring fuel costs, huge budget deficits, the war in Iraq, fighting in Afghanistan, a showdown with Iran, global terrorism — the list... summary from source:
AP News Major work stoppages idle fewer workers
2/27/2007: 529 words, approx. 2 pagesAbout 70,000 workers missed days on the job because of labor disputes last year, only about one-fourth as many as a decade ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The change reflects the more powerful position of employers, high anxiety among workers and new labor...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Lawrence Weschler
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You need only be informed that in [High Anxiety] …, Brooks is sending up Alfred Hitchcock, and you will instantly surmise that here, on the last day of the 54-day shoot, he is trying to bury The Birds once and for all. Hitchcock's protagonists suddenly found themselves prey to a swarm of man-pecking birds. In Brooks's version, the psychiatrist-protagonist—"a reincarnation of the classic Hitchcockian hero, the tall, handsome innocent who gradually becomes ensnared in a nefa... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Charles M. Young
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High Anxiety could well be Brooks' funniest movie yet. The plot is disarmingly rhythmic, sucking you into suspense-movie clichés and then exploding them with a joke…. The camera and the music are also important characters, contributing to several wonderfully surreal gags. Not every joke works: one dissident doctor dies of a brain hemorrhage from listening to rock & roll (now that's offensive, it's been done-before, and the music should have been by Sick Dick and the Vo...
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