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Scribble, the narrator, and his gang of no-goods are seriously messing with "vurt," or virtual reality. Hallucinatory interactive dramas are encoded in synthetic feathers, and a person can waft away from everyday life by brushing the back of his throat with a feather tip. Fantasies range from harmless, biff-bam adventures through warm-and-fuzzy childhood memories, to varieties of porn, and on to malign alternate worlds that appear to be not just virtual but actual, and that permanently suck in vurt addicts...
...guys and gals, this is Biff Bixley with the scores. Another great night for baseball. Dingers were flying everywhere. Thirty-two home runs, including a clout by Matt Williams of the Giants that looks like it went into orbit. Roll that tape! Is this ball juiced or what? With 44 taters, the Mattmeister has now moved ahead of Roger Maris' record pace. But the big news was in Cleveland, where Albert Belle crushed two homers, including this titanic upper-deck shot, to lead the Tribe to a 9-3 victory over the Brewers. For the first time since...
...Harvard. Everyone here assumes that you were brilliant in high school, that you racked up the honors, that you shone. (Or that a) you play hockey like a pro or b) Daddy, Uncle Biff, Granddaddy and Great-Granddaddy went here.) Everyone assumes that somehow you were great in high school. Everyone. Your dormmates, your teaching fellows, your career counselors...
Richard Mawe, as Willy, and Ted Reinstein, as Biff, are excellent at leading the cast in what is essentially a father-son play. Mawe has a wonderfully subtle acting style, never overdone, but ready to pounce on every heightened emotion. He moves very naturally between reality and the dream sequences, assisted only by a warm light change and electronic music (which, at times, sounds suspiciously like PBS Wildlife Special accompaniment). Reinstein, funny and charismatic, is also more than prepared for moments such as the "pipe" scene. Other times, he expresses hisdisgust for the city environment in such a waythat...
...student actors also make appearances insmall roles. Serena Kortepeter '96 plays thesecretary of Willy's neighbor Bernard and one ofthe women that Biff and Happy pick up in arestaurant. Ross Benjamin '96 plays the friendlywaiter in that same restaurant scene. Both actorsseem to be fully at ease with the professionalcast...