Word: stare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what makes Lunch the most interesting of the no wave survivors. James Chance continues to subsume himself into his own ego and prejudices, Mars and DNA run circles around themselves and their past achievements, but Lydia Lunch has reached out to embrace new experiments. Don't let her cold stare and chubby cheeks fool you. Dada...
Times Square simmers in July. Dodging early morning traffic on what always seems the hottest day of the summer, I wait for the ugly melody of the construction worker's yell at dawn. The faces stare back at me--a tired traffic cop; the bag lady, waking from a night's sleep in front of a burnt-out marquee; the sleazy bum waiting for Caesar's massage parlor to open its doors to all his lust. By the end of the summer I told time by these people. Their habits were so fixed that I knew I was late...
...wrong-headedness to come. At the edge of the stage sit Kent and Gloucester, chatting and drinking champagne. Derek McLane's austere set leaves no place for warmth. Black gauze hangs menacingly. The Lincoln rests like a hearse--Lear's castle--upstage center. Its grille grins, its headlights stare. Seven stars, like seven gods, watch from the rafters. Lear emerges from the automobile, masked in sunglasses, master of his court, eager to dispatch the richest third of his Kingdom to his youngest daughter Cordelia. But Cordelia refuses to flatter her father and the play commences, careening out of control...
...people leave the arena early to get in line. But if you stick around long enough, you'll see the athletes emerge. "Good game," people tell the Romanians fresh out of the locker room, and they stare right back, wondering what the hell that means...
...American Speed Skater Leah Poulos Mueller, who has sharpened her daughter's skates through 20 years of competition and two earlier Olympics, found herself banned from facilities at the rink, but a Lake Placid teenager let out of school for the grand holiday could wander in and stare at the stars...