Word: absented
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...Lady from the Sea is not one of Ibsen's strongest dramas, but it is psychologically compelling. As Ellida, Vanessa Redgrave illuminates the repressed sexuality, the abstracted inability to relate to others, the state of being "absent from oneself." Pat Hingle has never done more sensitive work than in portraying an unbelievably decent...
Adjusting the levers on his four-track console, Jamaican Record Producer Lee Perry does absent-minded dance steps on a patchwork carpet composed of Ethiopia's national colors. On the studio side of the control booth's soundproof window, a singer implores "Jah," the black god who many Jamaicans believe was Haile Selassie, to deliver him from Babylon. Seated on the floor are half a dozen musicians whose hair is plaited into myriad ominous, serpentine "dreadlocks." Each man reverently smokes a large, cone-shaped "splif" filled with marijuana, and all nod agreeably whenever the singer alludes to Africa...
...supervisor came and hustled me back to the station platform. "We won't know why it went off until we get it back on," he said absent-mindedly. "Just tell your readers that service will resume in half an hour...
...husband are the first couple on the dance floor. The years between them add up to a tweedy century. They swirl in a self conscious foxtrot, counting every two beats as one. Their time is halved like this: for a few minutes they will dance absent-mindedly, staring in wonder at the crowd; then they will close their eyes, hug closer, and do a fair imitation of themselves thirty years earlier...
...talent was not lacking: Anyone who saw the action will tell you that Harvard skated circles around the visitors for the better part of two and a half periods. Nor was the desire absent, as the Crimson showed from the start that it knew how much it meant to win the game. So what happened, specifically what happened in the last ten minutes...