Word: angst
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...Running naked like the day I was born/ We're all naked in the land where I come from/ I'm a long long way from New York City now/ We're all naked if you turn us inside out." Combining giddiness with gravity, David Byrne manages to make angst...
...Even romance is, like, a bummer. On Sassafras Roots, Billie Joe makes the proposition, "I'm a waste like you .../ May I waste your time too?" Green Day's punk nihilism works because it's delivered with self- deprecating humor, not with narcissistic rock angst...
...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...
This one comes straight out of the movie "Reality Bites," Where Winona Ryder, playing the class valedictorian, sums up the languid angst of our generation: "The answer is...I don't know...
...best among the 23 entries in competition. But the picture threw the international critics into a tizz. They weren't sure they should approve of a work of popular art so enjoyably and cleverly crafted; after a week studying the snail trails of European anomie and Third World angst, watching Pulp Fiction was like sneaking out of a final exam to go on a bender...