Word: detachedness
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At the same time, Stomp is very definitely creating a "ritual" of sorts for the very culture it came out of. As McNicholas says, if people insist on deriving any message from Stomp, it should be "Do it yourself." (Using junk, household and industrial objects, by its very nature, challenges...
Austin Sloper, a prominent New York doctor, first enters after a day spent delivering someone's child. His solicitous care of other families stands in cruel ironic contrast to the distant, detached husk he becomes in his own household. His daughter, by contrast, exists in perpetually stunted emotional tumult. In...
"Mutilated Lips" is a bit more successful; the ocean imagery is notably entertaining if not more enigmatic ("Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist/Of the worm like tips of tentacles expanding/In my mind, I'm fine, accepting only fresh brine"), as distorted vocals play off a mysterious, entrancing groove...
Wagner said students' lack of participation in local politics deprives the community of an important voice. "Because they're somewhat detached from localities, they can think in more ideological terms," he said, adding that students can "participate in a less self-interested manner."
Contrary to cult thinking, outsize returns year in and year out are not a birthright wholly detached from the possibility of getting wiped out. Only curmudgeons like Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who last week sent up his third warning flag in 12 months, and gray-haired money managers who...