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Stiller, who struggles to turn his self-hatred into other-hatred, makes a hilariously morose seether, and Azaria is poetically twitty--he recalls Marlon Brando's Fletcher Christian.
She's still working, but DeParle notes that even though "she earned nearly $16,000 this year," she "struggles to simply keep food on the table" to feed her family.
A profile praises Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez's efforts to heal his country, as he struggles to overcome lymphatic cancer.
John Cheever's daughter takes a beating: Jonathan Yardley says Susan Cheever's memoir of her struggles with alcohol is "Grade B literary/journalistic opportunism-cum-sensationalism" (the Washington Post ). Alex Beam goes further in the Boston Globe , calling it a "despicable, wooden memoir."
Microsoft's success, along with its struggles with the Justice Department, is in this genre.