Word: angst
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...Angst should subside for first-year students troubled by computer data network at Harvard. Help has arrived...
...head emerge as perverse bastions of liberty. With each passing day, the chains of conformity shackle more citizens--all, of course, in the name of greater "freedom." This hypocrisy would be ironic, perhaps, if it weren't so tragic. Yet in the midst of this erosion of freedom, teen angst rears its ugly head--its Butt-head, if you will. And with him, his soulmate Beavis...
...rock band Nirvana became the surprise darlings of MTV and pop radio, they've gone through a media barrage that seemed the very opposite of nirvana. Now their powerful new album takes all the band's media-glare anguish and alchemizes it into noisy, brainy rock 'n' roll. "Teenage angst has paid off well/ Now I'm bored and old," Kurt Cobain sings on the opening song, Serve the Servants. "Self-appointed judges judge/ More than they have sold...
That is enough to fuel the hopes of the mainstream moderates in Israeli and Palestinian society. But uncertainty about what has been wrought is so angst- laden that it forces many of those in Israel who fear for their safety to shout, "Too much!" Many Palestinians -- some still more interested in destroying Israel than in building a state of their own -- retort, "Not nearly enough!" Angry and frightened extremists on both sides have plenty of guns and are accustomed to using them. Even the majorities that embrace the agreement are hesitant and fearful as they enter uncharted waters...
...with Famous Last Words, a snapshot of a resort town after Labor Day ("Nothing left for a dreamer now,/ Only one final serenade"). With vocal vigor and melodies that evoke the Beatles, the Kinks or Blood, Sweat and Tears but are tweaked to sound fresh, the piano man sells angst and redemption to the bar crowd. He's a hip pontificator -- the Boss with a higher...