Word: angst
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...asking a lot of students to feel comfortable with that situation." said Power. "Why should we put people through this angst...
...Cheez Doodles, Depeche Mode's musical vision of the future already seems a thing of the past: too-cool-to-care vocals, lyrics like something off an answering machine at a suicide hotline, industrial-strength dance grooves as unforgiving as capitalism itself. In retrospect, many of the band's angst- laden hits -- Master and Servant, Fly on the Windscreen -- now seem so terribly '80s, dispassionate, cold and metallic. Music written by androids, produced by cyborgs, performed by robots. Open the pod bay doors...
...three of the pieces commissioned by the Austrian. The Ravel Concerto in D Major is so powerfully conceived and artfully composed that its limitation is hardly apparent; in many ways it is superior to the same composer's two-handed Concerto in G Major. Fleisher digs into the dark, angst- ridden work, plumbing its depths with the unimpaired musical intelligence that has always marked his playing. (Would that his accompanists, Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony, were on the same wavelength.) He sprints through Prokofiev's steely Concerto No. 4 with aplomb and turns in a glittering performance of Britten...
McNally elaborately portrays a high school community in Phoenix, Arizona. Puberty, break-ups, confused sexuality, divorces, insanity and a suicide or two confront the motley cast of teachers, parents, students and lovers. Walker Miller, an angst-ridden teen, shoots himself in the mouth, triggering a season of self-analysis for everyone involved. The novel charts their attempts to recognize and deal with their grief...
...second mistake was to have Peters, so good at winsome vulnerability, play a character so hard and snarly. From the opening number, in which she rages at being abandoned by a live-in boyfriend, to the contrived quarrel with her new paramour a few moments before the finale, her angst always outshouts her charm. A third goof was to have Short start out really neurotic, as Richard Dreyfuss was in his Oscar-winning film portrayal, but turn into Caspar Milquetoast (or Ed Grimley) within minutes. The domestic frictions that made the film funny simply disappear...