Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most other sectors of society, a double-paned, safety-reinforced glass ceiling exists for women on the Undergraduate Council. Women on the council are simply not expected to behave in the fashion the men do, and when they deviate from this unwritten rule, their gender is used as a weapon of punishment...
...publicly sent out over the e-mail list to refute the bias of the statement against me. This combination of gender-based weapons and silence so bothered me that my Undergraduate Council express train was thrown off track. For the first time, it became devastatingly apparent what the glass ceiling meant to me and, moreover, that I was dumbfounded as to what to do about...
...drug scenes at a detox center have the bumpy rhythms and details that suggests reality rather than fantasy: "Tiny Ewell, in a blue suit and laser chronometer and tiny shoes whose shine you could read by, is sharing a dirty aluminum ashtray with Nell Gunther, who has a glass eye which she amuses herself by usually wearing so the pupil and iris face in and the dead white and tiny manufacturer's specifications on the back of the eye face...
...East London with his girlfriend when a powerful blast of wind nearly knocked him to his knees. Nearly a mile away, a half-ton bomb had exploded just across from Canary Wharf, home of Europe's tallest office building. As blood-flecked pedestrians stumbled across acres of shattered glass and sirens pierced the smoke, Parker tried to calm his girlfriend, Samantha Herbert. "I thought immediately it was something to do with the I.R.A.," he said...
Other memorable scenes include a lingering close-up of an Alka-Seltzer being dropped into a glass. As the visual of the fiercely effervescing water and the audio of fizzing (seemingly increased in volume) fill the senses, we can feel the inwardly-turned desperation of Travis's existence, shutting out all the world in his unreasonable reason. The first two seconds of a monologue Travis delivers in another scene are later repeated; Scorcese makes it appear as if the camera is doing a double-take at Travis's tirade...