Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over thirty years, and are afraid to face each other because they do not want to part with the past, when they were young, beautiful and hopeful. Davidson's descriptions of the mother are well-crafted and sad without being overly cheesy or moralistic. The mother is "like a ghost come to life," when she arrives in Greece, and the narrator thinks "she [the mother] looks beautiful, as always. I have just begun to understand how a secret life can undermine what appears strong on the surface, the way water can eat the foundations of a rock until it becomes...
...narrative of Girlfriend begins, the ghost of high school football star and self-acknowledged male slut Jared Hansen describes the day that he collapsed during the middle of a football game and then succumbed to a fatal struggle with leukemia. He then hands the narrative reins over to his living friend Richard Doorland, who introduces Coupland's latest array of anti-heroes: a tight circle of high school seniors of the late 1970's residing in leafy Vancouver, British Columbia, (which also happens to be Coupland's place of residence). The cast of characters is eerily reminiscent...
...only to go home and surf the Internet and send e-mail rather than calling or writing a note or visiting each other." Yet as the story plows on, the barrage of philosophical ramblings begin to take on a preachy tone which descends into irritating evangelism. In the end, ghost-jock Jared returns to heal his lost friends one by one, bringing them hope for the future and divulging the meaning of life. It's difficult not to stop and wonder just why exactly a dead, nymphomaniac football jock is floating through walls, healing the wounded, impregnating women and then...
...there is life after Lin, as HRO proved after intermission in its performance of Shih-Hui Chen's Moments for Orchestra. The piece was commissioned as a children's work, and the programmatic nature of the music was easy to hear. The first movement, "Two Ghosts," sounded as spooky as the name might have implied. Eerie, gentle phrasing underscored the motion of the "High Ghost" and the "Low Ghost" between the chimes and glockenspiel and the tuba and low strings. An unusually quiet orchestra exquisitely realized the dissonance. (HRO is master of the loud; exuberant finales seemed continually...
Tower Records also carries a stock of vintage Grateful Dead wine, cleverly named "Dead Red Unwine" ($15). Rumors suggest that Tower may soon be coming out with a new line of clothing, "Tower Gear," which presumably would sell alongside the now-existing racks of "Ghost in the Shell" t-shirts and Pantera wife-beaters...