Word: anguish
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...needs, and sometimes they are not met. This is where we get our delinquency problems, with Vietnamese youths getting involved in gangs." The loss of the support systems afforded by an extended-family network in the old country also isolates the elderly and leaves them in lonely anguish...
...passions in these psalms are familiar: anguish, anomie fueling rage, solitude seeking fusion, a gonadal pulse that just won't quit. Ah yes, the soul of rock in its giddy, roiling infancy. The singing voice is familiar too. That pure tenor -- its piercing power and excellent elocution suggesting a glee-club star who's just been kneed by the school football coach -- could belong only to Marvin Lee Aday, known to the world as Meat Loaf. First as Eddie the zombie biker in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), then as star of writer-arranger Jim Steinman's ambitious album...
...most difficult and daring space assignment since the Apollo moon landings. Though NASA is trying to downplay it as a "scheduled maintenance flight," the goal is anything but routine: the crew is supposed to fix the faulty Hubble Space Telescope, a $1.6 billion disappointment that has kept astronomers in anguish since it was launched three years ago. The repair work will require that alternating pairs of astronauts go on five space walks of six hours each, which would break the NASA record of four such excursions on a mission. Since the task will be something like weaving baskets while wearing...
...from this perspective that The Piano, with startling craft and anguish, asks the question, How much does love hurt? The answer is, Too much. And what is love worth? Everything...
...girls get married and change their names," says Ruth Graham, "but the boys are stuck with Graham." Franklin (William Franklin III), 41, and Ned (Nelson Edman), 35, caused their parents anguish in their rebellious search for what Ruth calls "their own identities." But now that their period of rebellion is over, the question is whether one might reprise his father's role when Billy passes from the evangelical scene...