Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...coming up with the ideas," says David. A Seinfeld premise is different from that of most other TV comedies; instead of a generic sitcom "problem" (Murphy's mother comes to visit; Roseanne hates Darlene's new boyfriend), Seinfeld typically starts with a small, recognizable life moment that causes outsize anguish. Says David: "I like something tiny that just expands...
...past years, November I was an unofficial holiday. It was the day when the Leprechaun returned to the Parquet. I would be over the mental anguish that only the Boston Red Sox could inflict...
Harvard's pre-eminence in course-offerings inevitably causes anxieties. Am I taking the course that is right for me? The greater the choice, it seems, the higher the anxiety. During the brief season of course-shopping, when so many choices have to be made, the anguish level reaches high noon, for students and teachers alike...
...case, ever since the members of the post-punk rock band Nirvana became the surprise darlings of MTV and pop radio, they've gone through a media barrage that seemed the very opposite of nirvana. Now their powerful new album takes all the band's media-glare anguish and alchemizes it into noisy, brainy rock 'n' roll. "Teenage angst has paid off well/ Now I'm bored and old," Kurt Cobain sings on the opening song, Serve the Servants. "Self-appointed judges judge/ More than they have sold...