"Red Bull," a cagey Romanian drama by Vera Ion about two bored young people who find common cause, could have been written by any number of American purveyors of suburban angst.

Suburban alienation and boredom may have been done to death by movies and by "The Twilight Zone" itself, many of whose episodes were saturated in suburban angst.

Todd Rundgren acknowledges that Steinman was highly influenced by the "rural suburban teenage angst" of Bruce Springsteen.

Hanging over it all is suburban angst - we're annoyed with nature but feel guilty that we are.

Elvis chasing Ann-Margret in his streamliner fanjet bubble-top coupe, or James Dean being chased by the demons of suburban adolescent angst were about as good as things got.

The cover stories tend to lurch from one lurid extreme to another - the celestial frontier or the apocalyptic dead end, the font of innovation or a vacuous wasteland, free love or suburban angst.

The next day it would be samosas or khandvi or steamed dhokla - and each day after, instead of being worn out by the suburban angst I was filming, I felt clean and refreshed.

Last Saturday night two more cartoonists told tales and showed pictures of UFO's and backyard monsters, which in their view are the only antidote to suburban angst.

Its new album, "Lil' Beethoven," meditates on, among other things, classical music, exaggerated suburban angst, "Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls" and a world without rhythm.

Some of this suburban angst was foreseen by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 321 A.D., and by the Puritans 13 centuries later.