Word: brood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan was beaverish: to walk, sniff, conn and brood every one of the county's 12 central grids, 744 sq. mi. on the U.S. Geological Survey maps. With much satisfaction, he reports it was Thomas Jefferson who directed that all of the nation except the already mapped East be ruled into grids, never mind natural or political borders. "Chase County sleeps north-south or east- west," he digresses (if that is possible in a project that depends on serendipity), "the square rooms squared with the world, the decumbent folk like an accountant's figures neatly between ruled lines, their slumber...
...show steers a didactic course through the recurrent images of jazz-age dreaming. Maria, the famous she-robot in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, mother of a whole brood of automatons down to George Lucas' See Threepio, was not alone: her brothers were the machine men of Dadaism, whose poetic meaning (like hers) was anguish in the face of inhuman technology. No phase of modern art showed such profound doubts about the present, or threw off such febrile dreams about new social orders. The millenarian hope that eventually spawned the totalitarianism of the '30s was felt by artists, architects...
...version of pastoral -- a noble-savage counterpoint to the corporate rat race. The myth got lost in the series of unsuccessful movies he made after his greatest, On the Waterfront. Schickel concentrates on how and why this happened to the celluloid Brando, leaving the real-life actor to rut, brood and grow fat in some other, more scandalous, less lucid book...
...most of her dancers are gay. To them she is a doting den mother, turning stern only when things get bitchy. It's a tough job, juggling dozens of fragile egos along with her armored one, but she has balls enough for everybody. The crew is her moody brood, and she is Mama Madonna, single parent...
...Still, I brood about whether I am prepared for the horrors of what will come next, either the carnage of a ground war or the full revelation of civilian casualties within Iraq and Kuwait. Despite my informed consent as a citizen, a wave of queasiness hit me with the first air strikes against Baghdad. But then the euphoric opening days of the war made it seem as if America had perfected the neutron bomb in reverse: high-tech weaponry that only destroyed buildings, while leaving people miraculously unharmed. Even now, after more than a week of war, the cameras have...