The band was started at the San Francisco Art Institute by Iyall and Zincavage.

Iyall was originally hesitant to perform because she was overweight: " After seeing Patti Smith, I still had it in my mind that you had to be skinny to be up there stage, but after going to the Mabuhay [...] you just do whatever you want, be whoever you want, just make it happen.

" Even though I was going to the Gardens so much, I also had criticisms: Everyone was leaning against the wall wearing black ," Iyall said.

Saxophonist Benjamin Bossi was added to the lineup as an " accident " when Iyall met him while he worked in a deli.

The sudden surge in popularity was disorienting to Iyall.

Iyall stated that there was more pressure to write sexually laced lyrics for Benefactor: " I do like to be provocative, and I definitely have access to my sexuality, and as a topic I find it ripe, but I wasn't ever going to be a sex-pot diva, so that was kind of odd.

Billboard writer Kathy Gillis wrote after a concert two years later that Iyall exhibited a " dramatic range that, while not extreme in either direction, was touching.

" Iyall was highly critical of the music of the day and found inspiration in other mediums.

Critics praised her lyrics for their " searing imagery ", " seething poetics ", and " intelligence " " My approach was always that I had something to say, I had a point of view ," Iyall said, commenting on her outspokeness.

Constant touring has been cited by Iyall as the primary reason for the break-up.

In the last couple of years, three books have appeared in public sociology: The " Public Sociologies Reader ", edited by Judith Blau and Keri Iyall Smith ; " Public Sociology: The Contemporary Debate ", edited by Larry Nichols ; and " Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-First Century ", edited by Dan Clawson, et al.

In 2010, Iyall declined to discuss the issue, but added that she may not be taking full responsibility in the matter.

Iyall garnered acclaim as a skilled lyricist who explored themes like sexuality and alienation from a female perspective with " dark intelligence " and " searing imagery ".

Among the many artist musicians who studied at SFAI are Jerry Garcia, guitarist in Grateful Dead ; Mike Henderson painter and blues musician ; Dave Getz, drummer for Big Brother and the Holding Company and Country Joe and the Fish ; Prairie Prince and Michael Cotten of the The Tubes ; Debora Iyall and Frank Zincavage of Romeo Void ; Freddy ( aka Fritz ) of the Mutants ; Penelope Houston of the Avengers, Courtney Love, actress and rock musician ; Nathan Burazer, and Jonathan Holland of Tussle ; Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker of Troll ; Devendra Banhart ; Robert Earl Davis, band leader of The Earl Brothers.

According to Iyall, the name " Romeo Void " referred to " a lack of romance " and came to mind after they saw a local magazine with the headline " Why single women can't get laid in San Francisco.

Iyall has continued to pursue music as a side project.

Iyall has continued to dabble in music related projects and events.

The band primarily consisted of saxophonist Benjamin Bossi, vocalist Debora Iyall, guitarist Peter Woods, and bassist Frank Zincavage.

Vocalist Debora Iyall occasionally visited the Bay Area to see Patti Smith perform.

Bassist Frank Zincavage met Iyall at the SF Art Institute ; the two hit it off and discussed putting a band together.

Iyall recruited Woods because she enjoyed playing with him in the Mommers and Poppers.

" The very next town we got to after they made that decision, there wasn't an A & R person there ," said Iyall.

writer Denise Sullivan stated that the label spoke to Iyall about losing weight, but she subsequently refused.

Iyall released a solo album entitled Strange Language with former band members Bossi and Smith in 1986.

Richard Harrington of The Washington Post acknowledged the similarity, but also noted the influence of other singers in " Never Say Never " where Iyall mixed the " aggressive bitchiness of, the coy confrontational tactics of Patty Donahue of the Waitresses and the slack sensuality of Debbie Harry of the earliest Blondie.

" Iyall used to find the comparison annoying, but eventually warmed to it: " When people said I sounded like her, I'd say, ' Oh yeah, thanks a lot.

Patti Smith had a great influence on Iyall.

`` You owe it to Penny to give her a chance to explain that she was defending you, really '', he observed mildly.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

A set of tables containing spectral intensities for 39,000 lines of 70 elements, as observed in a copper matrix in a d-c arc, was completed and published.

Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm, and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958, A, B, C ), and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen, 1958 ).

The fraction of exchange was determined as the ratio of the counts / minute observed in the carbon tetrachloride to the counts / minute calculated for the carbon tetrachloride fractions for equilibrium distribution of the activity between the chlorine and carbon tetrachloride, empirically determined correction being made for the difference in counting efficiency of Af in Af and Af.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

Exchange was also observed in these cells, which had chlorine present at Af.

In the Sacramento valley in California, for instance, it has been observed that there was not one day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins.

It was observed that EWC macromolecules are the same diameter ( 15 a. ) but much longer ( up to several microns ) than vertebrate tropocollagen.

It was observed in the introductory chapter that metropolitan life had split into two trends -- expanding interdependence on an impersonal basis and growing exclusiveness in local communal groupings.

Frederick Douglass once observed of Lincoln: " In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color ".

There was a tendency in late eighteenth century Enlightenment thought to understand human society as natural phenomena that behaved according to certain principles and that could be observed empirically.

Within a few minutes, Johnston was observed by his staff to be nearly fainting off his horse.

These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.

Thus, the planetary model of the atom was discarded in favor of one that described atomic orbital zones around the nucleus where a given electron is most likely to be observed.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

A tradition at one time observed on this day in England was to leave out soul cakes and sing a song for the dead.