Word: hazing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...occasionally associating them with his former music teacher's amazing vocal ability (a connection just as random as it sounds). While Chaudhuri claims the novel attempts to reconcile the English world with the protagonists Indian childhood, the pages read more like an inventory of incidents enveloped in a romantic haze...
...recent Monday night at Charlie's Tap Jazz Club in Central Square, notes of Miles Davis filtered through the dark club onto the street. In the middle of a smoky haze, the keyboardist sweated, the saxaphonist swayed and the drummer bobbed his head in time with the music...
...Professor of Japanese History, NewYork University." The story begins from there asthe ever hopeful, bitterly realistic voice ofSayuri takes over, and the reader finds himself sotaken by the enveloping prose, quietly blendingthe "superlative degree of comparison" present inDickens's opening in A Tale of Two Citieswith the seducing party-haze of wealth and a longafternoon that Fitzgerald so successfully employsin The Great Gatsby, that he soon sheds hiscritical eye and sinks deeper into the sofa for along, delicious read. This, of course, is exactlywhat Golden wanted...
Freetown is burning. The sky is barely visible through the gray clouds of smoke curling up from the eastern side of the city. The occasional finger of white African sunlight that pokes through the haze falls on piles of dead bodies. The soft sands of Lumley beach, which sits on the north edge of town, are blanketed with dead soldiers, and the tranquil bay that lies between downtown and the airport is an oily, grisly mess, teeming with floating bodies and body parts...
...citizens start turning into rhinoceroses. At first the people struggle with disbelief, but as more and more victims go crashing through the streets trampling cats and knocking down stairs, the survivors become engaged in a struggle to retain their humanity. Eventually, only Berenger, a lackluster drunkard wrapped in a haze of brandy and paranoia is left to hopelessly affirm his own humanity as everyone around him joins the unstoppable herd of rhinoceroses. The play, which signaled at turning point in the career of the dramatist Eugene Ionesco, is a startling commentary on the rise of fascism and on mass hysteria...