Word: timeless
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DESPITE THEIR EGOCENTRICITY, the tribe members evoke sympathy for their cause. Hair extends beyond individuals to a more depersonalized and timeless struggle against the status quo, a fight that appears doomed before it reaches the battlefield. When Claude is carted off to Vietnam, he leaves the tribe behind, singing about "facing a dying nation" and pleading to "let the sunshine in." By this time, the audience is completely on their side...
...conventional verities. Thomas Williams, who won the National Book Award in 1975 for The Hair of Harold Roux, now gives us a fantasy spun from the loose threads of The Lord of the Rings, The Whole Earth Catalogue, Carlos Castaneda and the Environmental Protection Agency. Set on a timeless, mythical Western frontier, the novel cultivates a modern delusion. As the author says, "It is a story that I hope might remind its readers that at our best we remember and feel as only children sometimes seem to do: openly, untainted, without guile, paying full attention...
...look at the animals and the crops and trying to ingest as much of the tranquility as my cells would absorb. I thought briefly about re-inviting myself there for part of a summer. Perhaps someday I will. But right now I know I would tire of the timeless hills and mountain brooks and would eventually wring the neck of a rooster that woke me on a sleepy Sunday. Summer camping never managed to accustom me to outhouses; I will never adjust to life without steaming baths. But when we drove to the bus stop, in a cranky Vega smelling...
...play opens, the Athenian courtiers strut about the stage like so many automatons, suggestive of "a timeless urban environment," as the embarassingly pretentious program notes put it. Hermia and her lover Lysander wish to be married, against the will of Egeus, her father, who wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander decide to leave Athens and be married in the woods outside the city. Helena, a friend of Hermia, learns of her plans and tells Demetrius, knowing he will follow Hermia into the woods where Helena hopes to seduce him. The four flee restrictive-but-orderly Athens...
...majesty and the savagery of the act. First comes the ballet move-an explosion in the legs, a concussive last step and then a great leap. Floating, twisting, pulling free of the floor, drifting over dazed defenders. Then the frozen moment, suspended above the basket, serene for a timeless instant. Finally the kill: ramming ball through rim in a single ferocious stab of hostility and triumph...