While Bob and the Silver Bullet Band revisited classics like "Against the Wind," he and his buds conspicuously rocked out to some eyes, an odd way to cap off 37 days of court proceedings determining he'd be tried for murder.
Not silent, exactly, not conspicuously absent from the comedy circuit or the odd ludicrous make-over with Trinny and Whatsherface on the telly, but less full-on, less in your face, less never-trust-a-man-with-testicles than her usual self.
While fans may find a certain unfamiliarity with the content, as it conspicuously lacks any sign of ultra violence or signature Odd Future subject matter, the words come forward as raw and honest.
The remaining roiling masses were conspicuously friendly.
Meanwhile, key state and local officials are conspicuously silent on the bill, which has drawn opposition from the ideologically odd couple of organized labor and tea party conservatives.
Like a flipped version of the Unwomen in Margaret Atwood's feminist parable "The Handmaid's Tale," the Prada Unman was gotten up in humiliating tutu belts, severe high-collar shirts that buttoned up the back and odd cummerbunds that disappeared in a chevron down the front of trousers conspicuously lacking a fly.
As the Bürolandschaft idea spread, the old inequalities and status markers re-emerged: "Secretaries are still pooled together, but at odd angles… The chief executives are out on the floor, but get apportioned conspicuously more space".
With the Potter juggernaut finally grinding to a halt, we're no longer left with the odd sensation — by turns isolating and liberating, stippled with doubt and suffused with defiance — of standing conspicuously apart from a cultural phenomenon that so many embrace.
I felt conspicuously human.
