Word: shadowers
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...seem to talk like Candy Christian) mere days after Faulkner's funeral. His novelist's eye colors his perceptions: "Next to the benches, and about three feet apart, are two public drinking fountains, and I notice that the one boldly marked 'For Colored' is sitting squarely in the shadow cast by the justice symbol on the courthouse fa*ade - to be entered later, of course, in my writer's notebook, under 'Imagery, sociochiaroscurian, hack...
...role models, of course, are Ronald Reagan and (although they'd never admit it) Bill Clinton, who each, in their own way, personalized their relationship with European and Russian leaders to Washington's advantage. But Europe in the Reagan years was mostly governed by conservatives and lived under the shadow of the Soviet military. Post-Cold War Europe is mostly run by center-left governments that have precious little in common with Bush's conservativism. Moreover, the maturing European Union is beginning to claim an increasingly important diplomatic role for itself, in which deference to the United States...
...matter what, I felt uncomfortable looking at a naked woman pretending she was turned on strictly for my benefit. That's a moment I like to reserve for my home life. The whole thing was a lot like a strip club, only with a hand-shadow guy. The women wore inappropriately formal gowns, too much makeup and danced with their breasts at the guys' eye level. In a lot of ways it reminded me of my eighth-grade dance...
...contained fantastic period costumes that happened to be missing the top half, like Merchant-Ivory meets Stringfellows. There were pirates, clowns, cancan dancers, a woman swimming with giant eels, Egyptians, genies, Shetland ponies and, for reasons that must have to do with this being France, a 15-minute hand-shadow puppet show. I was insulted that the producers thought that the only way to keep a man's interest is to show women's breasts, but far more worried that women were paying attention...
...matter what, I felt uncomfortable looking at a naked woman pretending she was turned on strictly for my benefit. That's a moment I like to reserve for my home life. The whole thing was a lot like a strip club, only with a hand-shadow guy. The women wore inappropriately formal gowns, too much makeup and danced with their breasts at the guys' eye level. In a lot of ways it reminded me of my eighth-grade dance...