Word: angstful
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Beibin’s film festival experience started as a product of suburban teenage angst, as is typical of the punk scene. In 1999, seventeen-year-olds Skot Beaudoin and Mike Carroll proposed a mix of films and bands in a baseball field in their hometown of Doyleston, Penn. When the mayor denied them a permit, the group relocated the event to West Philadelphia, Beibin’s home, and the Lost Film Festival was born...
Low’s music, which bears similarities to Elliott Smith, the Red House Painters and Radiohead, is a perfect mirror to the sheltered angst and icy beauty of the town from which they emerged. Duluth is a small city in northern Minnesota, packed on a hill overlooking the western tip of Lake Superior. Its population has dwindled as the iron mines have dried up, and young people move on in search of the metropolitan lifestyle Duluth fights to insulate itself from. Buried in the snows of long winters, residents hole up in the bitter cold with wool and addiction...
...today, the angst of the old semester should be gone—shopping done, grades finalized. Wednesday will really ring in the full start of the new term. Hopefully the Registrar will take a sign from the lunar New Year, learn from its mistakes and resolve not to repeat them again...
Despite the tension surrounding the sale, and Lacroix's moodiness even when all is well, his collection was devoid of angst or melancholy. Lacroix seemed to delight in showing off his artisans' skill with feather petticoats, elaborate embroideries and lace appliqués--all the details that are so costly and integral to couture. He showed his hand as a master colorist, trotting out unexpected combinations like a sari-style chiffon gown in grapefruit hues of pink and yellow, trimmed in turquoise, or pieces in pastel blues set off with deep, rich black-currant-colored velvet trim. He even resurrected...
...many virtues, there are things about the Chancellor that would stop him from being a successful PM. He bears grudges; collegiality is not his strong suit; though less so now that he is married with a child, he sometimes seems to carry around an existential angst, as if a dirty, gray, west-of-Scotland sky was permanently moored above his unkempt locks. He does not make people feel comfortable. He does not have - as, even after Iraq, Tony Blair still does - the capacity to convince the solid, middle-class folk of southern England that he is one of them...