Word: boring
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...goal is to create theater that is dynamic, inventive, challenging--and that won't bore kids," says Peter Brosius, artistic director of Minneapolis' Children's Theater Company, who regularly checks out companies in Europe, where theater for young people has long been more audacious (and, not coincidentally, better funded) than in the U.S. "Young audiences are more associative, nonlinear. They're willing to go on the journey." Brosius' company has staged an interactive, site-specific production of Antigone and, last spring, an evocative performance piece called Prom, in which students and teachers re-enact the anxiety- ridden rite of passage...
...alone in my despair for the next four years. As thousands of Bush-Cheney supporters screamed and cheered on the screen, I studied the faces reflected back at me in the autumn-themed window. Resting on bodies of various heights, ages and fashion styles, each bore the same expression: hollow-eyed despondence. I couldn’t find a trace of the happiness of the nearly 59,000,000 citizens who voted to keep Bush in office...
...then the Crimson bore down...
Where the Smiths were desperate, the Wedding Present was bitter, and their songs overwhelmingly address the deceitful nature of ex-girlfriends, sentiments surely in accord with those of Rob Fleming. Their first album bore not only “Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?” (subsequently released in French, for no reason), “Don’t Be So Hard” and “You Can’t Moan, Can You?” but also the jealous ex-lover classics “Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft?...
...face it. No man called Alfie would ever make it with the ladies--unless he bore an uncanny resemblance to JUDE LAW. In the upcoming remake of the 1966 classic, Law, left, plays the title role, while former Eurythmic DAVE STEWART, center, and MICK JAGGER provide the film's music. Law dropped in on a recording session, perhaps to swap Lothario tips with Jagger, who said recently that playboys, sadly, no longer exist: "Any resemblance between my life and a playboy's is purely coincidental...