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While much of the Asian-American community gears up for the coming social season filled with dances, food fests and midterms, a group of undergraduates is hard at work to insure that the applicants to the class of 1991 will include a diverse blend of Asian-Americans from across the country...
...show's most serious shortcoming is its scant supply of sentiment. Because the narrative hurtles immediately into action, it takes quite a while to involve the audience with the characters. Then, just when it has developed the Phantom as a pathetic blend of noble genius and physical freak, it turns him into an almost random murderer. In an ideal entertainment, there must be someone to root for. But as Alice noted of a wonderland no more demented or enchanted than the Phantom's opera house, they are all very unpleasant people here...
Nowadays there is a range of colors available for tuxes (like the sun- doused pastels in After Six's "Miami Vice" collection), as well as a scale of prices that rise from the bargain basement ($139 for a polyester- blend model made in Hungary) to $3,500 for a hand-tailored cashmere or silk number from William Fioravanti in New York City. "There are only about 500 of us in the world who own these Fioravanti tuxedoes," boasts New Jersey Entrepreneur Joe Taub, who swanks up his with diamond-and-ruby studs. Giorgio Armani works subtle and cunning variations...
...point, they come across a player (Andrew Gardner) and his acting troupe, touring the countryside with their bawdy plays of "blood, love and rhetoric." Gardner displays just the right blend of braggadacio and jaded wisdom, as when he informs the mixed-up pair that "uncertainty is the normal state." The troupe, a mute foursome of half-wits, is perfectly, wonderfully imbecilic...
Conroy tempts fate and the limits of his talent when he plays at being William Styron, John Irving and perhaps even Mark Twain, if Dr. Lowenstein's couch is considered as a raft on which Jew and Gentile drift toward enlightenment. There is also a reckless blend of Bobbsey Twins adventure and revenge fantasies usually associated with drive-in-movie horror festivals. Would you believe that after Lila, Savannah and Tom are raped by three escaped convicts, the family's pet Bengal tiger bursts in and rips the criminals into small pieces? Would you believe that no one finds...