Word: rootlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of image that only an expatriate could have made, and Steinberg, before anything else, was an expatriate. When dictators in the 1930s ranted about rootless Jews, Steinberg was what they had in mind. Born near Bucharest, Romania, the son of a printer (hence an early fascination with type), he studied architecture in Milan in the early '30s. He never designed a real building, but he was to develop an exquisite sense of architectural convention, of stylistic parody, that shows in the dream skyscrapers and iron galleries of his later cityscapes. In 1941 he made his way to Lisbon...
...order to provide land and livelihoods to otherwise rootless farmers. Thus a counter-claim can be made to my professor's original claim, that it would be even more immoral for us to bequeath to posterity a world in which poverty and starvation are pervasive. We can see from these contrasting claims why many consider concern for the environment to be a luxury among those whose basic human needs are met and thus not as morally incumbent a cause as the fight against hunger and destitution...
Born Love Michelle Harrison in San Francisco in 1964, Love has led a rootless life. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother later gave her the new first name Courtney; she eventually started calling herself Courtney Love. She has lived in Liverpool and Dublin; she has slogged through reform schools and stripped in strip clubs. Skin starts off self-consciously, with Love reveling in her notoriety. "I'm all I wanna be," she wails. "A walking study/ In demonology." Certain images repeat: angels, stars, heaven. "I'm a cancer," Love explains. "I recycle." Death...
Like Kamen, Jerry Firman, 62, got acquainted with computers years ago. But when he sold his weekly Ohio newspaper, the Coshocton Free Enterpriser, he was looking for a new sense of community. He had taken up residence in an RV and loved the freedom but felt rootless. His solution: to build communities online. Through Third Age, an online site for seniors, Firman founded a chat room called Butt Out, which offers support for seniors trying to stop smoking. He joined another called the Novel Approach, where 16 regulars critique one another's manuscripts...
...face. The road-movie plot is similar to The Living End's: a dishy, disturbed guy hitches a ride and raises hell with guns and other toys. The troublemaker is Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech)--call him X, as in sex--and when he hooks up with the rootless Amy (Rose McGowan) and Jordan (James Duval), severed heads and arms are strewn across the arid California landscape. But X is too hip to have a conscience: "Guilt--that's for married, old people...