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...novel - it's narrated by one of her roommates - Lola is politically harassed and sexually traumatized, and finally she hangs herself. The title refers to the unripe plums that the city's ogreish police officers steal and eat as they roam the streets, in a display of brainless gluttony...
...than originally written, but the individual performances of the two actors easily compensate for this weakness. Johnson is especially delightful, playing Tolchinsky with an endearing earnestness, a wry sense of humor, and a weary, yet acute awareness of his ludicrous situation. After his character fails his mission and becomes brainless, Johnson’s entire physicality changes, making for some of the funniest non-spoken moments of the show. As the straight-faced man, Johnson may have the most difficult job in a play otherwise filled with absurd, broadly-played comedic characters, but he handles the portrayal with ease...
Giant pandas are like a boyfriend orgirlfriend who is staggeringly good looking but otherwise brainless and self-absorbed. Pandas often have to be artificially inseminated because so many have lost the most primal of urges. When pandas reproduce, many cubs have to be cared for by zookeepers because the mothers take no interest in them. Over time, pandas have worked themselves into an impossible ecological niche. They eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and then, depending upon their appetite at the moment, only certain varieties. If the right kind of bamboo is unavailable, they will starve to death...
...admonishment from the Ad Board for my “inattention to administrative details” perhaps stung a little. This superfluous reprimand was, regardless, on target. I will never make such a brainless mistake again. But I have no reason to think this will be the last time an oblivious student like me slips through the Harvard bureaucracy—I just hope the advising system is there to catch...
...Rich’s verdict? Like most Broadway productions today, the administration’s PR machine is full of glitz, lights, and spectacle, but at its core, it’s shallow, empty, deceiving and plays, for an unwitting and brainless audience...