The set was at times hyperaggressive, hyperassertive; here and there you wanted to tell it to back off.

He considers spectatordom as the fundamental condition ordering social life, but the state of being he characterizes as theatrical must always be staged in a nontheatrical mental field that much more closely resembles the transparency of the realist novel than the non-narrative fictions of theater.

On the tormented Desire, as if naming the plight of self-blinded love in the album title itself, Oh Sister overcomes the broken covenant as the voice calls out for a confederation of male and female in transromantic quest: We grew up together ...

She folded over the corner of the page to mark where she left off reading.