The Slits never set out to be antagonistic, exactly – "We were just having fun," McLardy insists – but their brash, unapologetic sense of autonomy, and the fact they deigned to seize a space for themselves in the scene they helped create, threatened people "on some deep, psychological level".
We must have gone to bed together at some point in that day, but what I remember is being with her in the cave of the car, proudly conscious of the wealth of her hair and the width of her smile and the breadth of her hips, and then in my happiness jauntily swerving across an uncrowded, sunny street in Passaic to seize a metered parking space along the left-hand curb.
The mission was to seize an opportunity to render a tight space habitable and, if possible, aesthetically pleasing.
"This is clearly an attempt to seize public space -- and a knowing attempt," said Kevin A. Finnegan, co-chairman of the land-use and zoning committee of Community Board 5 in mid-Manhattan, which filed a complaint that brought a city building inspector to the site.
I've also noticed an increase in the ranks of what I think of as space invaders, mini-territorial expansionists who seize public space with a sense of manifest destiny.
"Our concerts were to become a pure protest saying: superheroes in balaclavas and acid bright tights seize public space in Moscow".
It seeks to seize others' space, too.
The point of staging unauthorized concerts in unusual locations — before the cathedral, there were performances in the center of Red Square, outside a prison and in a subway station — the women explained, was to present an image of "pure protest, saying: super heroes in balaclavas and acid bright tights seize public space in Moscow".
In an interview with Gazeta.ru, a band member described their two-minute concerts as performance art, creating images of "pure protest, saying: super heroes in balaclavas and acid bright tights seize public space in Moscow".
Impatiently double parked behind them was a white convertible, waiting to seize the vacated space.
