Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director Barry Levinson's wonderfully biting satire of this prevailing attitude, which links show business to American politics. The people want to be caught up in the swirling momentum of performances, Levinson implies--whether it is a big-budget alien movie or the Presidential speech on television, Americans want to be entertained. The two arenas of politics and Hollywood, no matter how opposed in fundamental purposes, end up reaching their ends by the same means...
...Space A psychiatrist's comfortable world is shaken when he encounters several patients with similar tales of alien visitation. Writer-director Tina Landau's wondrous production for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre is a magical mystery tour, packed with inventive sound and lighting effects, that explores cosmic questions of mankind's place in the universe while staying grounded in the spiritual quest of one vulnerable man, played marvelously by Tom Irwin...
...another part of the alien-conscious nation, at Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, Calif., 39 disciples of the Heaven's Gate cult mixed phenobarbital, applesauce and vodka, slipped plastic bags over their heads and persuaded themselves that they were headed for a better life among the stars. Their suicide--the most lethal of the year's mass emotional activities--came in response to the appearance of the Hale-Bopp comet, an astronomical surprise that incited other public anxieties about the coming millennium...
...feel of a ship maintaining its emergency lighting and water is missing. Who wants to see a bunch of ragtag ruffians conducting a Goonies-like escape through a creepy funhouse ship, or to witness the most beautiful and horrific outer space being Salad-Shot through a window? O, fair alien, we hardly knew...
...Flora F. Zhang '00. Three greenish pieces of found ledger paper provide fertile ground for the variety of Zhang's alternately delicate and aggressive charcoal and ink marks. Tiny red dots spiral in clusters from the tabulations of an anonymous accountant, while green spots mark the time of some alien music or growth patterns. Anemic writing whispers between the rectangles of the grid, and fragile bubbles wobble across the page. Reminiscent of John Cage's drawings, these miraculous works provide a hesitant moment of introspection in the VES department's most self-assured of recent shows