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...last year's first-years, Garden Street social life turned out to be a wasteland. Senior Adviser W.C. Burriss Young '55 overreacted, some say, to complaints about party noise, and he shut down some festivities before they could even begin. Most socialized in the Yard, and some, when they could find a welcoming friend, began sleeping there...
...party, he senses that "something terrible" actually did befall him: the paralyzing fear of risk that made his outwardly orderly life an emotional wasteland. It paralyzes him again, at the moment when his second- chance love is deciding whether to return to an abusive husband. Kimbrough, ever the gentleman, remains to comfort others: a female friend grieving over widowhood and a gay male stranger sobbing over a lost lover and a dead dog. They have known love and pain and embrace both. He keeps life at handshake distance -- every life, even...
Drums of Heaven describes a terminal wasteland where the "tears of the crocodile water the sun" and "kidney bone cities are crumbling to dust." Feeding Frenzy uses sepulchral organ chords and a throbbing bass line to drive home its point that civilization has bloodied its own waters; Garrett sings, "Computers and shovels, churches and brothels/ Mannequins and skeletons, cities and dust bowls/ Here we go again/ Hear the clamor of the feeding pen." Garrett, who ran unsuccessfully for the Australian Senate in 1984, sings like a man on a mission, his voice stoked with righteous indignation as he lashes...
...movie industry's feminists might feel uneasy too. They look at the movie landscape and see a wasteland, where the meaty roles women get tend to be predators or sex kittens. "Hollywood is trying to resexualize its women back into submission," says Callie Khouri, screenwriter of the feminist buddy movie Thelma & Louise. "This whole idea that women are powerful because they're sexy is a crock. Sex isn't power. Money is power. But the women who do best in this society are the ones who are the most complacent in the role of women as sexual commodity...
...Less than two years ago, there had been nothing in the whole countryside but a few primitive villages. Then geologists discovered the richest iron ore in the world. Now the blast furnaces tower, prickly with wooden scaffolding. In a wasteland these furnaces are rising, the highest man-built structures the workers have ever seen...