On a rest stop at the Lynchburg, Virginia, Greyhound station, I was shocked, ashamed, and a little frightened to find, off to the side of the main waiting room, a smaller, windowless waiting room labeled "Colored" — ashamed because of my complicity in using the (unlabeled) white waiting room, frightened because I suddenly felt myself a silent stranger in my own country.
It is only now that I understand the fullness of my own complicity in this catastrophically destructive system that has claimed the lives and yet never the dignity of millions of black men and women for hundreds of years.
It provoked a feeling I can only describe now as muffled rage, as though appreciation of the work required my complicity in and sanction of something shaming.
"The theme of the prism is my complicity with Roger Vivier, an expert with scissors in the art of the collage," Mr. Frisoni writes in "Roger Vivier," a sumptuous picture book published by Rizzoli that includes 300 images of current accessories and iconic shoes from Vivier's history.
"I believe these modifications were made with a goal in mind, and that goal seems clear: give the impression of complicity of my client with Jérôme Kerviel," Mr. Scémama said.
Looking back, the complicity of my friend and other purported allies was arguably the most traumatic part of the experience.
When the "guilty" verdicts had been announced and Richard and his co-defendants issued with regulation convict garb and all-off haircuts, I joined and then, with my claim of complicity in the "Schoolkids Oz" half-believed, led a protest march of about 12 people through Worcester's main shopping thoroughfares – and up and down department store escalators until cautioned by a constable.
Yet the Holocaust has unavoidable international dimensions lines of influence, circles of complicity, moments of congruence.
On behalf of my group, the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, I should like to refer to two possible areas of complicity in the light of current events.
She patted a furry paw on his leg and let out a little squeak, and he looked at me for my surefire grin of complicity.
When I began unravelling the murders of women like my sister, the complicity of government, the courts and the broader society in the expunging of male guilt stood out like a beacon.
