Word: caging
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...Cage aux Folles, an expensive French restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard, where transvestites impersonate famous female singers. Tipped by radio that Arrington and the coke had been seized, the agents waited until Hetrick finished his late-night meal, then arrested him outside the restaurant...
...preparation for the match on the tiny astro-turf field at the Heights the booters will practice for an hour in the newly renovated Briggs Cage. Shattuck said the key will be rhythm in passing. "BC is hard almost violent on defense," he said. "We'll need to be quick in getting rid of the ball...
...real world, equally obvious changes were taking hold. The twin demands of feminism and a new imperial economy paroled the American woman from her domestic cage. With the Pill, technology undermined conservative morality. Couples could have only as many children as they wanted, or no children at all. Freedom from the biological imperative has been followed by an economic imperative: earning her way, single or married. More than half of all American women ? indeed, more than half the U.S. married mothers ? are in the labor force. There a woman must collaborate and compete with men, as other...
Owner Philip Lovell was a health columnist, an exponent of water cures, open-air sleeping and vegetarianism. Neutra, more enthusiastically than scientifically, designed for him what he called a Health House. It consists of a steel frame, somewhat like a huge bird cage, daringly jutting out of a steep slope. Without sacrificing its airy appearance, the frame is enclosed in a dynamic pattern formed by window bands, metal panels sprayed with a coating of stucco and cantilevered balconies. The entrance to the house is at the top of the hill on the level of the living rooms and sleeping porches...
...kept as curios of the culture, like shrunken heads. But the writing we tend to get now, books milling around aimlessly at the dead end of the post modern (or wherever we technically find ourselves), seem somehow . . .inadequate. Our literature paces like an un-happy animal in a small cage. On the whole, we learn no more about the meaning of things from our "creative" writers than a child learns about wildlife by watching the disconsolate, paranoid polar bear in the Central Park Zoo. The brute scowls and flips a beer keg around his stagnant pool and dreams of killing...