Word: namelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down with too many heavy-duty courses about obscure topics with lengthy term papers, I decided a little late in the semester that I would indulge my Core tooth. I walked into Sanders Theatre to attend the fourth lecture of a certain well-known Harvard gut which shall remain nameless...well, okay--it rhymes with Gyros, pronounced correctly. Anyway, amid the post-lecture melee, I approached the head...
...consequence of Rice's turn of phrase here is a remarkably artful handling of sexual scenes. It appears that sleeping with nameless people of both genders is as essential to Armand's becoming a vampire as drinking blood. Armand's coming-of-age becomes a veritable Debbie Does Dallas as he screws his way across Europe. As subtle as Rice is in her sexual descriptions and as cheerfully dirty-minded as I am, however, I'm convinced that it was the baths between Marius and Armand, the sadomasochistic romps and the vampire-mortal orgy that made me put this book...
...singer's 1937 death is peripheral to the main plot which centers around a bigoted white nurse (Marie Larkin), her "liberal-thinking" doctor boyfriend (Gavin Barbour) and the hospital's black orderly (Gut Bushfan). In an attempt to maintain universality, the characters are nameless, and yet they are too textured to be archetypal. The nurse wields as much authority as she can, threatening to have both the orderly--who is more educated than she--as well as the doctor who is always standing up for "them nigger," fired...
This takes some getting used to. The big company I work for shall remain nameless, but it is a software manufacturer located in a suburb of Seattle. (Hint: the Janet Reno fan club has been disbanded.) This company prides itself on being different from other big companies, and it probably is in some ways. (Are there bare feet in the cafeteria at Procter & Gamble?) But maybe it is less different than it thinks...
...must be free, not to save the world in a glorious crusade, not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain, but to practice with all the skill of our being, the art of making possible," Clinton said, quoting from a favorite poem...