Word: angst
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...anyone who misses the angst of early Morrissey or is weary of production levels beyond what can be accomplished in a high-schooler's bedroom--or anyone who has waited for a friend for hours in the pouring rain--the ballads of the Mountain Goats soar with innocence and purity. For anyone who can stand fervent strumming on an acoustic guitar and isn't bored watching a one-man ban rather than the recent group efforts of ska, Darnielle's music is amusing enough to be entertaining...
DIED. PETER BLOS, 93, compassionate psychoanalyst who pioneered the exploration of adolescent angst; in New York City. In The Adolescent Passage, Blos argued that the psychic battles waged during the teenage years help determine an adult's mental health...
There is now a new woman in Taylor's life. He plans to build a house, improve his French and learn to play the cello. But the same angst that led him into drugs is still there. "I'm an entertainer, so I'm very sensitive to what other people's judgment of me is," he confesses. "When I engage someone else, I care very much what their opinion of me is, perhaps more than I might at this age." For Taylor, it seems, there is no escaping the loneliness of being human...
...they were having heavy arguments and stuff at their [last] show, but I didn't believe it," Joey Ramone, no stranger to band-member infighting, told online service Addicted to Noise. "I thought they'd have to be nuts to break up now." Or just tired of all the angst...
...undercurrents of unhappiness and angst grow stronger as the play continues, and tense interludes break up moments of comedy which recall the original "The Ozzie and Harriet Show." The deft interspersing of the serious with the comic can best be appreciated when the audience responds to the jokes and follows the premise of the play to its gory end. The play's ending reveals the cruel absurdity of the characters' attitudes by taking them to their logical extreme. Eventually, David can no longer coexist with his family: his perspective on life has been so altered by his bittersweet experience...