Anna Deavere Smith - Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Excerpt from Godzilla - Anonymous Man #2) lyrics

There was still the uneasiness that was growing when the fuse was still burning, but it was business as usual. Basically, you got such-and-so on line one, such-and-so on line two. Traffic, Wilshire, Santa Monica. Bunch of us had go to lunch at the the Grill in Beverly Hills. Um, gain major show business dead center business restaurant, kinda loud but genteel. The... there was an incipient panic- you could just feel- the tension in the restaurant it was palpable, it was tangible, you could cut it with a knife. All anyone was talking about, you could hear little bits of information- did ya hear? did ya hear? It's like we were transmitting thoughts to each other all across the restaurant, we were transmitting thoughts to each other. All the, frankly, the white upper cla**, upper middle cla**- whatever your, the definition is- white successful... spending too much money, too, ya know, too good a restaurant, that kinda thing. We were just getting ourselves into a frenzy, which I think a lot of it involved guilt, just generic guilt. .............more continuing...........