Word: angst-ridden
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...Microsoft practically giving their hottest product away to any angst-ridden Harvard student just for the asking? After the public relations disaster surrounding Intel's Pentium chip and its inability to perform division on certain rational numbers, Microsoft is making an extra effort to ensure that Windows 95 goes to press with a minimum of bugs. Windows 95 contains a slew of new features-features that could easily translate into new headaches for users; Microsoft wants to avoid problems as much as possible by testing the product on willing guinea pigs...
Actually, it's John Osbourne's psychological drams Look Back in Anger, written way back in 1956 in England and first performed in 1957. The play centers around Jimmy Porter, an angst-ridden working-class college grad who makes a living running a "sweet stand"; the themes Look Back in Anger explores are wonderfully applicable to today's "Generation X" non-movement...
...tell you stories of an angst-ridden childhood. She can't tell you how she published her first lyric at the age of six, or how she struck out on her own after kindergarten, or how she spent her adolescence in a suburban wasteland, misunderstood by her peers. Though she's a poet and, she admits, most poets come from such dramatic beginnings, Tracy K. Smith '94 never enjoyed these fruits of misery...
Bergman's films are highly philosophical and characterized by metaphysical anguish and despair over mankind's search for meaning. Detractors dubbed Bergman the "Master of Angst," seeing him as a purveyor of the stereotypical Nordic anxiety which Norwegian painter Edward Munch punchily captured in "The Scream," recently stolen by angst-ridden environmentalists...
...angst-ridden time," says Hillel Social Chair Deborah K. Finkel, who organized the event for those without significant others who might "feel upset...