Word: voids
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Since the 1998 publication of his last book of poetry, Void of Course, Carroll has been writing furiously but without focus, simultaneously working on two novels. One, tentatively titled The Petting Zoo, is the story of a young painter in New York. Carroll is keeping details of the second novel under wraps. All he will say is it resulted from a “great epiphany” years ago and that he “almost sold it as a film to somebody, but I didn’t want to do that...
Taylor had fared well in the position—but freshman Dave Watters, who has filled Murphy’s void on the fourth line for the last four games, has notched five points during that window of opportunity...
...basement space—renovated in 1992 with a $7 million donation from philanthropist Katherine B. Loker—was designed to fill a void in student social life and provide an alternative to more exclusive final club soirees. However, the space has instead been split between fly-by food runs, math study sessions, and problem set cramming...
...Moreover, the battlefield is a large platform that has been tilted 80, a nearly vertical position. That gives the audience a unique, God's-eye view of the action, but it's hell for the performers, who must fight to keep their balance--or off they plunge into the void...
Except there is no stage--anyway, not a stable floor. Instead, a void, out of which some ethereal miracles materialize. Many of them take place on two huge surfaces: a 1,250-sq.-ft., 175-ton slab (known as the sand-cliff deck) and a smaller one (the 900-sq.-ft., 40-ton tatami deck) that can simultaneously lift, rotate and tilt. Thus the actors must perform many of their maneuvers while the earth is literally moving under their feet. (If they fall off, there's a 60-ft. drop out of sight and onto an airbag.) Other scenes occur...