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Perry’s plays are perfect chitlin’ circuit fodder: they recreate and comment on the black experience with a deft blend of comedy and pathos. His productions often feature incarceration, addiction, adultery, and financial ruin. But these are always overcome in the end by the positive forces of family, Christianity, and good humor. Perry’s oeuvre transcends entertainment: it is a compelling dramatization of black America’s collective anxieties and hopes...
Without Madea’s brazen comic relief, the film’s darker themes and overt religiosity would be intolerable. Perry strives not for emotional consistency but for a harmonious blend of disparate emotions. Diary’s tone is a compromise between the tragic and the ridiculous...
Solomon, whose has brought a blend of Washington and Cambridge to Mass. Hall, said he had accepted an assistant professorship at the University of Georgia School of Law. His departure will follow that of Lucie McNeil, Summers’ press secretary, who is slated to leave in the next several weeks...
...passes out poison capsules to his circle. This leads to the most horrifying sequence in the film: Magda Goebbels, wife of the notorious Propaganda Minister, poisoning all six of her children because she does not want them to grow up in a world without National Socialism. This act, a blend of romantic and ideological fervor, is almost unbearable to witness. But it stresses what this riveting film most wants to say: that perversion is well within human possibility, especially among those possessing absolute power. --By Richard Schickel
...first act this past Thursday in the rather tropical confines of the Quincy Cage (in the basement of Quincy House), The IA managed to excite a crowd of several dozen students seeking live music and refuge from our latest snowstorm with their blend of hip hop, Latin, rock and all other permutations thereof. During the band’s half hour warm-up set, they displayed an uncanny feel not only for danceable rhythms and intriguing melody lines but also for sinuous hooks and exotic instrumental interplay...