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...door slams. After so many rapid and fantastic events, the calm and lasting image of husband and wife seems to return the play to its foundation and end the superfluous insanity. Bananas is comforting and quiet as a dejected Artie holds and kisses her-we hold our breath wondering if her illness is cured by the love and attention she has craved all along. But the play that began with such roguish humor does not resolve this question so easily. Instead it ends in an abrupt and surprising sequence too fantastic to be revealed here-a sequence made...
...River view; maybe you're just so extraordinarily excited to have a single that you can't think of anything else. I hear you on that one. It's quite possible you still love your roommates. Maybe you've never walked up to your door mumbling under your breath how much you hope no one's home...
...needed hiatus; one in which we combed the isles of the Caribbean and felt the hot breath of the Mexican federallies on our necks--all in a hard day's night. Most importantly, FM realized that Spring Break did not have to leave us like a freshman girl the morning after--alone. We could conquer Spring Break. FM could push it to its limits and extend Spring Break to our daily Harvard lives. And that we've done...
...more concerned with the dwindling battery power of the digital camera he was using to record this spectacle for his own website. Finally, mercifully, the trailer ended. Ebert congratulated the happy aliens, who spent the next 15 minutes beaming. "This is a new high," Ebert said under his breath as he walked away...
Despite its preordained finale, Carolina Moon builds a commendably brisk narrative energy and pace. Roberts' prose does not invite lingering. In fact, reading fast is the best way to get past such locutions as "Her breath came in pants" or this anatomically puzzling account of Tory and Cade together in bed for the first time: "His mouth all but savaged hers, ripping down to her gut with one jagged and panicked thrill...