Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy enough to lose sight of the fact that The Who stood in defiance of the Woodstock generation. "You've got to remember that Tommy was antidrug in 1969," Daltrey recalls. Townshend, who had been through his own phase with drugs, was not only using Tommy as a mirror for Baba's antidrug strictures but was also putting refractions of Baba's teachings into a rock context. Tommy ended by pulling the rug out from under false idols, directing the search for salvation inward and out toward the audience. What Tommy sang to his disciples, freeing them, was also...
...PLACE IS AT THE EDGE. An hour after showtime, it is packed with more bodies and the mirror behind the bar is steamed with human heat. The little black box is itself pumping when the lead guitarist breaks his Sex Pistols cover and chants with his bass player, DESTROY-DESTROY-DESTROY and he disappears behind the drummer, who keeps a steady, low roll. The singer emerges from the other side of the drums wearing an Iranian flag shirt and American flag pants. There are 50 safety pins mending the rips in his shirt. They do a song called "Take...
...William Golding. (Farrar, Straus Giroux, $10.95): Last time you read Golding you were in sixth grade: Teacher handed you Lord of the Flies; you read it, you staggered, and understood why the bully relished slamming the seesaw over your head during recess. You self-pityingly gazed in the mirror, shook your head and whispered "Piggy...
...scene backstage before curtain time, which Wilber uses to cast a spell over the house. In this case, passivity unintentionally pays off--the Loeb Royal Family doesn't pin any more significance on the slightly dated script than it can support. Three hours of good comedy remain, without any mirror tricks but without too much pretense, as well...
...records go, Harvard comes off an 8-21 season while Texas boasts a mirror-image 21-8 year, 13-3 in the South-west Conference (tied for first). But Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin has never been one to back away from a challenge...