Word: caging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special event area" for ACORN's Monday morning rally at the convention center was out of night of the delegates going in. Behind a grassy knoll, in back of large trees, surrounded by fences, and watched by police on horses, the ACORN rally seemed to take place in a cage. The only moment of police-protestor confrontation for ACORN members took place when they sidestepped a line of police with readied batons to reach the delegate entrance...
...Henry Nissen, a.k.a. Hank Nissen, a.k.a. Spider Nissen and the last clung to him like a bad smell. He had a touch of the hyena for that matter--the same we-eat-tainted-meat-together intimacy that burns out of a hyena's eyes behind the bars of his cage. So Spider Nissen would look at me and give a giggle as if we had both had a girl together, and each took turns sitting on her head...
...with his Eurail Pass in order to use it for an extra month. He spent a day in jail and was threated with deportation, but somehow worked his way out of it. While researching in Finland, he received media fame for participating in a music workshop given by John Cage, one of the foremost innovative contemporary composers...
Pursuing his prototypes, the author has gone into the same cage, hanging around ethnic and inner-city bars, courtrooms and squad rooms. These days, however, he is content to stay at a 200-year-old writing table in the large and comfortable study of his Birmingham, Mich., home 15 miles and financial light-years from the Detroit streets he portrays. Even so, the man who made close to $1 million last year from film deals and literary rights has not let success alter his owlish image. Let others compose on word processors; Leonard still writes in longhand and revises...
...either history or the script invested them with. Be that as it may, one also suspects that in a theatrical climate where the domestication of homoexoticism for the middle-class market is a prime order of business, this play may well find its place as a sort of La Cage aux Folles sans score, but avec an up-market literary-historical twist...