Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, for all its professionalism and occasional felicities, you suspect that Lost in Yonkers worked better on the stage. One generally wants to maintain a certain distance from dysfunction; you don't want it leaping across the footlights to land, falsely grinning, falsely ingratiating, in your lap. But it is, of course, precisely the camera's business to facilitate such leaps. Even so, if these people had any real charm, if their oddity were cloaked in wit, if their rather chilly creator brought some real compassion to these sealed-off lives, we might take them more readily to heart...
When we sit on this park bench talking to each other," he says, "we don't put in little commas and colons and exclamation points. We don't need them, because we hear it." Merwin folds his sunglasses on his lap. "The closer words get to poetry, the more the spoken language is there. And that's not punctuated...
Finally, Banks sighs and sits behind a table in front, hands in her lap. She does nothing to stop the class from replacing the classical cassette with one of their own rap tapes. "Rap began a long time ago," she says softly, as the bass begins to boom over her voice. "It's gone through about three forms already...
...that the grant has expired, Gilbert said he will concentrate his attention on the work from his other lap, which studies the cell development of zebrafish, a common species of inquiry for many biologists
...invited to participate, at its Manhattan stop or later this year in Chicago, Boston, Washington and Atlanta. Saltimbanco (an Italian term meaning "street performer") will leave no one untouched and few unprodded or untweaked. A visitor may discover a sobbing clown in his lap or find herself in an impromptu troupe of somersaulters. One gent was lured onstage to safari through an invisible jungle, then high-noon it in a sham shootout...