Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuck in traffic on the way home from work, counting blue cars, and when a blue metallic Jetta pulls along side, you count it--twenty-eight. You've seen the driver on the other evenings, she looks strikingly like a young man--big, with dark, almost red hair clipped tight around her head. Her clear fingernails move slowly, like gears, on the black steering wheel. She watches you, expressionless, for a long second, then deliberately opens her mouth and circles her lips with the wet tip of her tongue. You look away, then back Suddenly her lane moves ahead...
...What would I do up on a stage? The only thing was to try and conjure up a figure to do the performance for me because I felt I was much safer playing roles. I was writing plays for these people, minimusicals." This, in turn, took on its own dark corollaries, with some assistance from various controlled substances. "I found," Bowie says, "that I was adopting the characters offstage. And then I found that I was living like the character, that the character was slowly evolving and taking over...
Given this nihilism, this self-loathing that seems the dark side of narcissism, why does Kafka remain, 100 years after his birth, one of the authentic voices of the age? The answer lies in this centenary volume, Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories. His tales, some no more than a paragraph long, have forced their way into the modern consciousness. In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa turns into an insect; in A Hunger Artist, a professional faster starves himself to death "because I couldn't find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made...
Action is needed now for now for seen the uproar will die down it always has in the past. And meanwhile attendance wil keep dropping at women's marches posters wil keep featuring degrading "teasers" to titillate ticket buyers and men will continue to rape women quietly perhaps in dark alleys--not with a cheering barroom audience but with a silent and much larger one. --March...
...other actresses particularly stand out and while McNamara as April and Belle Linda Halpern as Hoanne could not portray more divergent characters, each conveys idiosyncrasies with infinite charm. As the blond ditsy April McNamara reveals her beautiful sopraho in the duet "Barcelona" with Robert. And dark haired dark eyed Halpen as the cynical drunken Joanne displays a stunning voice in two numbers- "The Little Things," which mocks the supposed bliss of marriage and the solo, "The Ladies Who Lunch," which evinces a hearty disgust with pretense...