Word: distant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clothing, old shoes and garbage suffuses the narrow makeshift corridors. Cooking noises mingle with the gurgle of kitchen-side urinals. On tiny TV sets, a few men watch home videos of kin and country long left behind, for some as much as a decade ago. Others stare at the distant passion of porn tapes smuggled in from the old homeland. Each night the sounds of aching and loneliness drift down to the streets of Chinatown...
...enter, set designer Molly Hughes' interesting set foreshadows the wacky perspectives that are to come. A traditional, colonial style room resides on a stage that slants forward severely (making one wonder how the actors manage to avoid tumbling straight into the audience) with walls that slant together toward a distant focal point. It gives the impression that we are always looking at a photograph with skewed proportions, and illuminates very severely the sad fact that we are not watching picture-perfect families parade across the stage...
...always looking for attractions," Rose says, pointing to a distant field where several barrels rest on legs among wooden posts...
...could watch them back. These days, you are not on a first-name basis with the computers that track your credit-card purchases or your Web browser's wanderings--or with the people who, for all you know, can access those computers. It's this sense of a distant, cloaked observer that's really eerie...
Then again, some people long ago learned to live with the burdensome sense of a distant, cloaked observer. They call the observer God. It would be easy to ridicule this comparison. After all, God is nice, whereas prying hackers aren't. But actually, depending on the denomination, God can be wrathful and dish out punishment unpredictably. It really keeps you on your toes...