Word: bathtubs
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...make the sound, consumers devour it. For every pop generation from A to X, the big creative decision has been which record (cassette, CD) to put in the music machine. For radio listeners, even that decision is denied. Music is too easy: a hot soak in somebody else's bathtub...
...play starts, we find ourselves in the Adams House Pool, where the baroque surroundings seem particularly applicable to this sort of thing. It is 1808, 15 years after the murder of Marat. A row of prison bars separates the audience from the stage, and at center lies the famous bathtub wherein Marat took his last breath. Except, in this tub lies a neurotic asylum patient, playing Marat. And all around him, the large cast of almost 20 twitching, dead-eyed, asylum inmates shuffle about, dressed in dirty white rags, talking to themselves and to their invisible friends. The four-member...
...every role," even if this means making life for these heroines more complex or uncomfortable. For instance, when playing their own version of "The Robber Bridegroom," "they dress their Barbie dolls up [in bridal clothes and] hurl the brides over the stair railings or drown them in the bathtub." But while the dolls effortlessly return to life, the people in the novel, like the three pigs in the twin's version of the classic children's tale, tend to "get boiled." Atwood's comic parallels, even when a little heavy-handed, are always a lot of fun. After...
...moment of artificial suspense, a door creaks as it is opened, only to continue creaking after it has stopped moving. Or, the tense music that accompanies impending doom abruptly stops when the running bath water is turned off (from the "Fatal Attraction" bathtub scene). But then, five seconds later, the faucet is turned back on and the tense music brings back the conditioned suspense...
...Monte Carlo and Walt Disney World with that boy, his half-sister and his mother and, according to the complaint, slept with the boy. Reports indicate that the boy told his therapist that in Monaco Jackson had told him masturbation was "a wonderful thing," lured him into a bathtub and performed oral sex on him, then told him he would be sent to juvenile hall if the extent of the relationship were revealed...