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...Epps evidently felt that it did not follow the guidelines closely enough, but I felt was clever and harmless," student conductor Ryan Reetz '84 said...
...first issue of TIME included a section that was called Imaginary Interviews, in which celebrities of the day, like Margot Asquith or Princess Yolanda of Italy, were made to provide clever explanations of why they were in the news that week. By 1926, this not entirely successful experiment had acquired the rubric People, but it was only in 1927 that the People section began reporting what real people really said and did. "Names make news, " the section announced, "and last week the following people made the following news. "Herewith a sampler from the 56 years since then...
Though parts of the play get bogged down, most of the dialogue is incisive and clever. The combination of snappy one-line's from Earl about sex interspersed with old man McMillan's wisdom and expostulations contribute to the crafty exposition and ambiguity that Sibbard weaves throughout the drama. When Jim accuses James and Harry of becoming too uppity, we don't know whether to resent him for destroying his family with pedagogical union philosophy or pity him for living in a world that no longer exists. And, although Earl comes across as little more than an overgrown child...
Such judgments lose much of their potency when delivered by a narrator whose life centers around probing the limits of alcoholism and sexual perversion. Obscenities, apparently varied and clever in the original Russian, flow steadily and unendingly through Limonov's rocky prose. These have been translated with a singular lack of inspiration into either "fuck" or "shit," and serve rather to dull one's sensibilities than to shock them. Likewise, Eddie's staggering feats of drinking become banal with repetition. Thankfully, vodka does not interfere with the lucidity of either his narration or his pain. Although he describes...
...whom death is just the ultimate high. This kinky, doggedly erratic comedy was made in the city by Soviet Émigré Slava Tsukerman in a style that suggests a head-shop fire sale: garishly painted faces, a closeup of a heroin needle doing its dirty work, clever special effects computerized colors bright as an acic dream. Liquid Sky, now playing tc packed houses in a small Manhattan theater, is a two-hour act of imagination undisciplined by talent...