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...ceremonial "Boar's Head Carol" from Oxford; Susan Cooper's classic solstice poem "The Shortest Day" and a spectacular rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" you'll never forget. And, as always, Revels audiences are kept busy, singing carols with the cast and at the end of Act I, dancing out of the theater, hand-in-hand, into the grand lobby of Memorial Hall for Revels' signature piece, "Lord of the Dance...
...show opened, and everyone there was having a great time. My section was particularly hardcore when it came to audience caroling-there was big-time vibrato and harmonizing going on. And then, like the second paragraph promised, they all got up to dance at the end of the first act. I just barely moved my legs out of the way for my neighbors to pass, I was so nearly comatose. But I heard and saw them and everyone was giddy with joy. The most I can make of it is as a glamorized, Noelized karaoke session. Or as an excuse...
Altered photos of Victor supposedly at various parties and photo shoots appear, and he is threatened with edited photos of him ostensibly in the act of murder. It's the ultimate payback for someone obsessed with looks. This 'real truth' is less shallow than the original world of glitz we are used to--and at the same time purely superficial...
...action, all the blood and gore of bombings is really just more material for the cameras to take in. It's the book as snuff film, real pain made distant by the act of filming. At one point, the apparent master terrorist-supermodel Bobby Hughes commands the killing, and then turns to his associate with the camcorder and says "Keep rolling...
...hope that in the coming days the Senate will act more responsibly than the House did in December, and that our elected representatives will get back to substantive business...