Word: angstful
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...very much looking forward to the angst," she said...
...maybe there should be an element of emotional risk when someone exposes himself, figuratively or literally, to the viewing public - for money. Maybe Joel, Ramona, B.B. and the rest deserve all the angst they get. Maybe losing, even in so capricious a forum as Reality TV, ought to be about more than getting a hot meal and a shower...
...family of California became the test rabbits for the genre when PBS filmed their lives--including the coming out of son Lance and the breakup of the parents' marriage--in the seminal cinema-verite documentary An American Family. The Louds were utterly unprepared to become national symbols of suburban angst. "My mom was very proud of the family she had raised," says Lance, now 49. "It ultimately crushed her how much of the show's emphasis was on the divorce." Sister Michele, now 42, remembers the first screening. "The opening title card read An American Family, and then the words...
That modicum of solemnity could very well be enough to carry Bush through to November with a minimum of angst over this issue. Although at least one scheduled lethal injection - involving one suspect's deathbed insistence that his alleged accomplice is innocent - has the potential to incite Gary Graham-level protest, and the sheer frequency of executions could be exhausting for Bush's handlers, most people expect Bush to simply stick to his guns and ride out the storm. Of course, the public, as Bush likes to remind us, is on the governor's side: While fewer Americans support...
...singer Stuart Murdoch, 30, favors mournful, Smiths-influenced rhymes about the adolescent frustration that comes from desperately wanting to do something but not knowing exactly what. He's clever, but it's Murdoch's quavering falsetto that is the band's trademark. Earnest and prematurely wise, his vocals mix angst and nostalgia with a hint of optimism. As he sings on B&S's second album, If You're Feeling Sinister, "Get me away from here I'm dying/ Play me a song to set me free/ Nobody writes 'em like they used to/ So it may as well...