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...solution to a poor TF is to change sections--that is, if you realize early enough what you are getting into. But this is often harder than it seems. Switching from one section to another at Harvard is like playing poker. You have to know how to bluff (fabricate a conflict to escape a section with a dismal teaching fellow); you do not know whether trading in your cards (switching sections) will net you a better hand (TF); and you have to know when to walk away and give up the fight (resign yourself to the fact that there...
Gates' home of the future has been under construction for more than four years, and is not expected to be completed until this summer. Built into a bluff fronting Lake Washington, it has 40,000 sq. ft. of space and will cost about $40 million. Looming against the night sky are three connected pavilions of glass and recycled Douglas fir beams, looking a bit like a corporate conference center masquerading as a resort...
...Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Bernard Herrmann: the Film Scores (Sony Classical). Remember the shower in Psycho? Hitchcock may have been the director, but it was the gruff, bluff composer Herrmann who brought the scene to vivid, shrieking life. Salonen eloquently states the case for this and seven more of Herrmann's best scores...
...feverish surreality when Santa and Rosemary Kennedy show up at the Somerville pad and take over the apartment, gratuitous water bong and all. Small-time Socialist Perry (O'Toole), held up at gunpoint, still reverts to his typical over-inflated dictatorial style: "If this is some sort of bluff, it's poorly executed...
Because the ending is taken beyond ridiculous, "Monkey Town" falls somewhat short of the high Absurdist standard it sets for itself. The play's closing lines, "you've just been monkeyed around," leave the audience indignant. If Monkey Town is indeed some sort of bluff, it is poorly executed. But if the ending can be written off as a poor attempt at a facile closure, one is willing to forgive the forced nature of the play's denouement and look forward to more plays like "Monkey Town...