Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of the collection lies detachment: e-mail, lying, heroin, dropping out of college, refusing to have a baby, reading through the New York Times wedding pages, working as a bar tender constantly apart from the customers. Each of these experiences is one of separation, of losing touch with humanity, each is a symbol of loneliness and sadness, sometimes even regret or despair. At the heart of this dehumanizing sentiment lies New York, and one cannot avoid the feeling that the authors are trying to blame their unhappiness on the city itself as if the buildings, the dark allies...
...began to ask about my local haunts. Good! At least one of us was going to keep the ball rolling. We discussed the local high school bar and agreed that was company neither of us aspired to keep. This up-county boy was impressive...
...elegant curtain of New York City's Metropolitan Opera House rose to reveal a seedy-looking bar. A drummer rapped out four crisp rim shots, and three dancers in bell-bottom trousers charged onstage. One of them was a 25-year-old whiz kid from Weehawken, N.J., starring in the premiere of his first ballet, a breezy tale of girl-crazy sailors on shore leave that he called Fancy Free. At a time when most Americans thought ballet meant women in tutus pretending to be birds, Fancy Free looked more like Fred Astaire than Swan Lake, and the music...
...bawdiness and near minstrelsy is in for a surprise. Produced by Tim Reid, who created the esteemed but short-lived Frank's Place, this show aims high, taking up issues of race, politics and sexual orientation. The hero, played by Steven Williams, is a black Republican who owns a bar in a rundown but gentrifying neighborhood of Washington. His regular customers include a natty lobbyist, a prostitute, an African cab driver and, the only white, an aide to a decrepit Southern Senator. Pam Grier plays the smart, attractive head of a children's advocacy group. The show is worthy...
...good thing that Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson of Louisiana's state supreme court is such a strong-willed and independent thinker. If she had caved in to critics of Clarence Thomas and rescinded her invitation for him to address the National Bar Association in Memphis, Tenn., we would not have heard the remarkable and revealing speech that the only black member of the U.S. Supreme Court delivered last week. Instead of discussing the work of the court or his judicial philosophy, Thomas spent half an hour lambasting the big, bad bullies in the liberal, pro-affirmative action camp for trying...