Word: angstful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picture herself in 20 years: No, I can't project myself past this summer, which has been part of my angst and difficulty...
...broke out at this year's Cannes Film Festival. While most of the serious award contenders were meditations on 20th century history, like Theo Angelopoulos' majestic Ulysses' Gaze and Kamir Kusturica's Underground (both set in war-torn Yugoslavia), the main trend was Sociopath Cinema. The parade of teen angst-athons was led by the U.S. film Kids...
Gladstone plays Zed with Woody Allen's-not Kafka's-angst, complaining and sarcastically barbing his detractors. Sometimes Zed's commentary is a little too clever to be seem spur of the moment as sarcastic barbs should, but the lines are funny nonetheless and Gladstone effectively conveys Zed's frustration at being in center of such a farce...
...year MCA released a terrific CD of blues songs titled Blues recorded between 1966 and 1970 by guitar genius Jimi Hendrix. Today's young, fringier musicians are remaking the blues yet again. Its attraction is not hard to understand: rock is good for rage, lust and protest, but for angst, yearning and existential misery, nothing beats the blues. One of the last songs Kurt Cobain recorded before he committed suicide was Lead Belly's Where Did You Sleep Last Night...
Similarly, "Gettysburg" gives montage treatment to the narrator's memories of his failed marriage. Once again, the genderless child is a marginal figure used as a sounding board for its father's angst, which isn't all that interesting to begin with. After all, you can't learn much about a character form dialogue like this...