Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It is easy to look around and see sameness, to find friends that echo your interests and backgrounds and agree with your world views. And sometimes (especially in this post-randomization era) friends like that are important. But sameness gets boring and stagnates quickly. In our dining halls (if not...
Unfortunately, its lack of a narrative line is also "Blood:Shock:Boogie's" main liability. The piece ultimately fails when, in it's final moments, Jones attempts to instill seriousness and dramatic coherence into its chaotic structure. When Jones and his sidekicks stop moving, stop making the audience laugh, they...
To borrow Nelson Rockefeller's words, no politician with an ego--which means all politicians--has ever wanted to be "vice president of anything." But being Veep is still the surest road to the top, which is why Gore-Kemp will be worth watching even if Clinton-Dole never rises...
He drew the party faithful. A Dole campaign stop was not Reaganesque (20,000 adoring college students) or Bushian (mom and pop and the kids in the city square). Dole's crowds were 400 and 600, often at small, third-tier colleges, and they were Republican believers. One night, on...
Together, the plays and books paint the fullest portrait yet of an artist whose vision of human existence as a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt helped define our world view in the atomic age. In doing so, they correct the canard that Beckett's...