Details speak profoundly of individual identity and broader social conditions, as in "Torso, Pelaw, Gateshead". The faceless portrait shows an older man from the chest down, seated on a brick wall, his coat grimy, the buttons mismatched, a ripped pocket mended with large, clumsy stitches, and his laces so short they barely do the job of keeping his shoes on his feet.
The collar was frayed and the ripped pockets were reinforced with safety pins.
As they began to come of age in the tumult that was the 60s, many boomers were more likely to have a copy of "Steal This Book" shoved into the ripped back pocket of their jeans than the Good Book.
"So I'm reading [the note], but I'm hearing like the Champagne is broken, the bottle's everywhere and I'm still looking at the note because he's pulling at this box that's too big for his coat pocket and rips his coat pocket, and his elbow goes into the Champagne," she said.
It was his own plaid shirt, lost, he'd thought, long ago in some damn laundry, his dirty shirt, the pocket ripped, buttons missing, stolen by Jack and hidden here inside Jack's own shirt, the pair like two skins, one inside the other, two in one.
On Metro-North, Mr. Vergara said, commuters want lower seats, armrests that do not rip pants pockets, and more legroom.
Sherman wonders, "If now he would be plunged back into all the lost dark days before his peaceful life out here with Dean... when he'd find himself waking up in ditches with broken ribs and his pockets ripped out".
With his flashy suit and fresh trim, he seems to have it far easier than the woman UC (it's the garden snoop, aka Nose Ring) who has incriminatingly middle-class receipts ripped from her pockets, fake track marks injected in her forearms and is even forced to take crack in a truly horrible scene – "Hit the pipe.
"But there doesn't seem to be a limit," he said, contemplating the essential services stripped away and the billions in benefits ripped from the pockets of very "hardworking" families, disabled people or the elderly left with no care, without riots or rebellions.
He ripped out the fuse pocket, and found a second detonator inside the first.
His pocket was ripped to the zipper, leaving a square hole in the front of his trousers.
