Much like the AIDS quilt, which with each square attempted to give intimacy to large-scale loss, they imply a refusal to go sedately into oblivion.
Despite some recent unhappy experiences, there remains a good case for bringing into Whitehall successful businessmen who are given time to achieve intimacy with a given department.
But the owners say they may not sell out this season, a shocking development given the intimacy of Fenway and the undying devotion to the Sox in New England.
Each of Newhouse's star editors feels intimately connected with a man not given to intimacies, though fascinatingly, each sees him in significantly different ways.
Treating a baby sitter as a family member seems more than appropriate, given the intimacy of the job.
At a recent New York performance of "Job," his new play based on the biblical story, the audience had a similarly uncertain reaction to the graphic (and, given the intimacy of the 40-seat Flea Theater, truly in your face) violence, which included incestuous rape, necrophilia, sodomy with a broken stick, and an anatomically vivid castration that tipped the crowd into anxious titters.
It may sound strange, given the intimacy of some of this material — including an ill-fated affair with a New Yorker cartoonist that ended with Groth attempting suicide — but the impression with which we're left is of a writer avoiding the depths, the difficulties, of character.
This, of course, is exactly what the public has been given: celebrity intimacy.
Given the intimacy of French society, especially at the top of the pyramid, it was more than a polite request.
Given the intimacy and physical support of the Linbury Studio (instead of the open wastes of the main auditorium) the work would at least have had a fair hearing, instead of becoming an object of near ridicule.
