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Beneath the energy and drama of his extremist life, though, discomfort began to gnaw at Leyden. For starters he was finding his social life to be cloyingly ingrown. "We usually stayed home to avoid contact with other races," Leyden explains. And as discontent seeped in, so did conflict. Leyden's brother is a policeman, and skinhead jokes about killing cops started to seem less than funny. His mother, who had polio as a child, has a slight limp, while Leyden's closest friends were busy calling disabled people "surplus whites...
...leading up to the wasteland-- those days when your balance is ever-dwindling and your purchases ever more careful. In case you forgot or didn't realize it, the blinking green display reminds you: "BALANCE UNDER 25 DOLLARS." As if we didn't know. As if it didn't gnaw at us with each passing day. As if we hadn't acknowledged that, in an oh-so-clever marketing move, Harvard Dining Services has trapped...
...audiences as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation. In a performance he first offered to much acclaim last summer in Central Park, Stewart gives us a down-at-heels (barefoot, actually) aristocrat of lithe movements and piercing, narrow-eyed glances. Doubt and failure gnaw at him; he's a tatterdemalion schemer who knows, however potent his magic, that he's trafficking in forces that dwarf...
Taylor seems to agree, but the evidence elsewhere is that Nathan lacked the talent to be an artist and that he has dealt honestly with his own work and his family. And it is disappointing not to learn what Aubrey did all those years during his disappearance except gnaw at old wounds. It seems a vague, washy ending for a work that glories in the charm of specificity...
Lane says Kennedy can be "moralistic," and explains that he's on Perspective and Lampoon because "he likes to gnaw at people, and both [organizations] allow that...