Word: angst
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...showed again just before leaving for the Soviet Union, Kohl has become increasingly adept at handling the spasms of angst about Germany. The immediate grievance was a statement by British Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley that the "uppity" Germans were plotting to take over Europe, and he would just as soon hand over the Continent to Hitler. What made the uproar worse was the widespread conviction that Ridley had only said what Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher thought. But Kohl wisely laughed off Ridley's remarks as "pretty silly," comparing them to his own gaffe about Gorbachev and Goebbels. Ridley was forced...
...cartoons that Jules Feiffer syndicates to more than 100 newspapers around the globe are world crises in miniature -- angst-ridden responses by ordinary people to headline horrors and social absurdities. His plays have the same etched wit, the same arresting blend of compassion and chilly analysis and, alas for dramaturgy, the same tendency toward monologue: one of his central if unspoken themes is that people almost never speak to each other as insightfully as they speak to themselves...
Doctoroff, and then Talenti, are each showcased nicely in numbers like "Goodbye for Now," and "Losing My Mind." They each handle the grandiose, sweeping ballads well, but Talenti deserves special recognition. His rendering of "Losing my Mind" is a delicate and effective outpour of angst...
Such adolescent angst was, of course, ludicrous. Every life has its disappointments; rejection by the college of your choice is probably more serious than not finding a date for the prom and less grievous than your mother throwing out a collection of 1950s baseball cards. Even then I was aware that my safety school was far better than most. So I stoically trudged off to the University of Michigan, a college that seemed majestically impervious to the damaged goods it was receiving. Michigan more than fulfilled its part of the bargain; the lingering gaps in my education (the inability...
...theme: the three Curtis brothers, scraping along together after the death of their parents, are part of a wrong-side-of-the-tracks crowd known as the Greasers. Their snooty, letter-sweatered antagonists are called the Socs (that's So-shes). The show pushes its James Dean angst a bit hard ("What do I got? Nothin'! Just another greaser goin' nowhere"). But the milieu is sharply etched, and rarely have the disaffected been so affecting. The best drama series yet from TV's hottest network...