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With "Fruit Cocktail," Tim Miller achieves through performance art what Jane Austen accomplishes in her novels: he tells a lighthearted story with a predictable ending, about ordinary people in ordinary circumstances, yet tells it so ingeniously that one is left dumbfounded, attempting to explain how such common events could form such a profoundly satisfying theatrical experience...
...months ago, Brudnoy began the new drug "cocktail" regimen involving the use of three different drugs...
...turn out to be caused by specific chemical imbalances. Those who suffer from them are racked not by toilet-training traumas or the "unceasing terror and tension of the fetal night" (as an early psychoanalyst put it) but by something as simple--and complex--as an imperfectly mixed chemical cocktail. The Oedipus complex has been reduced to a matter of molecules...
...empirical evidence says "yup." I'm 21, so I can buy beer, vote and can't go to juvenile hall. Hell, I can even get Zima. About a month ago, I went to a yuppie-ish cocktail party. The scary thing was, I had a good time...
...speculative "Hmmm." These days the real head scratchers are on TV; there you'll find the genre's cool, metallic intellect touched by the fever of despair. The X-Files' twin mantras--"The truth is out there" and "Trust no one"--are the ideal ingredients for a sci-fi cocktail with a '90s twist. The paranormal and the paranoiac have joined hands through a pop-cultural wormhole; they meet and multiply. It's not so much science as psychic or psychoanalytic fiction...