Word: cockroaches
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...RICHARD SEED We like the name, but can this guy even clone a cockroach...
...Gardner heist, it is Dan Falzon. The kid who followed his father into the San Francisco police department, then took a pay cut to join the FBI. Boston, in 1988, was his first permanent assignment. He was 26, made $30,000 and walked to the FBI office from "a cockroach apartment" in Beacon Hill. In his first big case, he laid the groundwork that led to the arrest of a man on charges related to drugs, an attempted jailbreak and the theft of the Mead paintings. Falzon had bagged Myles Connor...
...recently used genetic engineering to eradicate an epidemic, Susan is not smart enough to realize she's in a horror movie and ought to be wary of approaching a tall, hooded stranger to ask the time. The stranger turns and reveals its hideous face--ewwww, a killer cockroach! It enfolds Susan in its great wings and flies off into the subway's dank underworld...
...musical interludes through the evening included a mini-opera titled "Lament Del Cockroach" in which Nobel laureates starred as insects and tried to woo two mezzo sopranos acting as cockroaches...
Small imperfections aside, the general white flatness of the space is strategic, according to the documentary video prepared by ICA video Curator/Director Branka Bogdanovich. (Incidentally, the video space is also plagued by a slight sewer smell--less appropriately than in the cockroach exhibit.) The exhibition space is supposed to represent the sterilization of the Holocaust--the way in which it is rendered historically innocuous. Hopefully, the viewer will stick around long enough to figure that...