Word: daze
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...Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they see in the man--celebrity, charisma, holiness or, at least, a huge friendliness. But just there, floating from the left of the frame into the proceedings of history, like a shark's fin at the edge of a crowd splashing at the beach, moves...
...song called “Daze,” I said, “When your words are empty/and your subject matter’s elementary/then the kids are too advanced to pay for your fantasies.” People are tired of it, people are done with that shit. People want real, people want truth. When I made this record the truth bit me like a snake-bit, and I won’t do anything but this...
Like the quintessential boredFrench shopgirl, the fashion world has fallen into a daze--lulled by expensive handbags, too many peasant blouses and endless low-rise jeans. Even Miuccia Prada's bookish cardigan-and-pleated-skirt look, which caused a splash a mere 18 months ago, feels old. Everyone has done...
...started wearing yellow cords, saddle shoes and red-flannel shirts that I didn't tuck in. I became more outgoing and created an ideal high school life for myself: I was head of the student council; I wrote plays and performed in them; I drew comic books called School Daze. In them, I created a world of my friends and myself in which I was the hero...
...married at 22. In retrospect, that was a mistake. In a symbolic way, I stopped drawing School Daze: the last panel when I got married was "the end." I was putting away childhood things. I was putting away my dreams. That became obvious to me a few years later, when we had an alumni show at Steinmetz High School. My best buddy Jim Brophy and I wrote and performed in the alumni show. Doing the kinds of things I did in high school brought back to a conscious level what I had given...