Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then there is the doctor again. Williams specifies that this character should be a handsome blond. At first, such instructions appear trivial, considering that they do come from an author who describes even the design of the plates in The Glass Menagerie. But later, when Sebastian's sexual proclivities are questioned and when Mrs. Venable tells the doctor that her son would have liked him, these stage notes become quite important. Catherine even comments, "Cousin Sebastian was famished for blonds," calling herself and Mrs. Venable his "procuresses...
...tension in a relationship between a man and a woman (Sulking, 1869-71) or the undercurrent of violence in an affair (Interior, sometimes known as The Rape, 1868-69); a laundress's yawn; the stoned heaviness of an absinthe drinker's posture before the dull green phosphorescence of her glass; the exact port of a dandy's cane; the professional absorption of the petits rats of the ballet corps; the look in a whore's eye as she sizes up her client; the revealing clutter on a writer's desk...
Further down the street, some children played hide and seek between the parked cars. In front of them, tourists paused to snap photos of the iron fire escapes and stained glass windows on the narrow street. Overlooking it all stood the Old North Church, watching this scene impassionately as it has so many others since Paul Revere hung his lanterns there...
...elevators. I wanted Farr Bros., on the8th; the elevator doors opened into a slightlyancient little world completely removed from theglitz eight stories below. There were six or sevenglass and wood doors in the hallway. Next to theelevator, which had bare blue and red bulbs forits up/down signals, was a glass mail chute with abrass-embossed eagle on the slot...
Around the corner at the Glass Slipper Lounge a plump, bleach-blond dancer clad in a g-string prances on the stage as half-a-dozen patrons look on. This is what they call "adult dancing." Maybe it would be erotic if she was 40 pounds lighter, 15 years younger and happy...