Word: burnting
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Eventually the downtown scene burnt itself out in a blaze of success. Rampant gentrification has made SoHo's once funky lofts affordable only to the moneyed, and its former have-not inhabitants have also become chic. Anderson has forsaken the streets for major concert halls like the Brooklyn Academy, where in 1983 she performed her six-hour multimedia epic, United States, Parts I-IV. Wilson directed Marc-Antoine Charpentier's baroque opera Medee last fall in France; Reich's music has been performed by major orchestras from San Francisco to Cologne. The next extraordinary concentration of creative artists...
...legs you see are burnt and bruised, My feet are galled by stones, My flesh for lack of food is gone, I'm little else but bones...
Today we have outgrown that mentality. We acknowledge that it is not proper for whites to don burnt cork. It is my hope that the outgrow the anger that brings forth these unfortunate, division innuendos...
...Romero burnt his fingers while trying to move the screen, and Ray Johnson '86 ran down two flights of stairs to retrieve a fire extinguisher in the basement...
...decades, the landscape of subtropical disillusion has been so identified with one writer that it is commonly referred to as Greeneland. But Graham Greene's burnt-out cases are rapidly being replaced by Latin American protagonists and European figures who have a fresher story to tell. Detrez is still an unfinished writer, and he lacks the craft and polish of his great predecessor. But he has a sense of the appropriate image and the right valedictory tone...