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...ultimate failure to live up to his own image of himself. The biography could almost paint Mailer in a tragic light, but ultimately he seems too unconcerned, too disconnected from a reality and an America that he himself helped to fashion. Instead, Mailer's life appears comic, with the only constant being his love of shock tactics and always appearing unpredictable. Although he has lived a life full of exciting people and events, I don't necessarily envy Norman Mailer. It seems like he could never enjoy any of it, like it was just one escapade after another, and that...

Author: By Erik Beach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Life on the High-Wire | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...musically brilliant, with movements amazingly coordinated and a mix of grace and cynicism, they draw the audience in completely. This sophisticated elegance is contrasted with Papageno (Neil Davidson '03), Prince Tamino's traveling companion. Davidson plays the role of Papageno with an animated boyish charm that provides not only comic relief from the main plot but also adds to the fullness and energy of the story itself...

Author: By Jill Kou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Magic Kingdom | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...Most of the play's scenes happen within the context of Pamela and Dulle Griet's flight through Berlin, punctuated by the comic appearances of Herman and Gunter. The sets bounce wildly between a small theater, the columns of a museum, the streets of riot-torn Berlin, a fancy French hotel and a suburban Berlin hovel; the tone of the play changes just as wildly, such as when Dulle Griet gives a heart-felt monologue about what she imagines her "happy life" will be like, punctuated by Pamela's chirpy "Well, you're certainly the strangest girl I've ever...

Author: By Jason F. Clarke, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Goes Around... | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

DIED. JIM VARNEY, 50, rubber-faced comic who made hundreds of commercials and nine movies as the dimwitted Ernest P. Worrell, a cult figure in the 1980s famous for the catchphrase "KnowhutImean?"; of lung cancer; in White House, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 21, 2000 | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Next Century?" in the next Visions issue). If the indicators are correct, the mother ship of these Ecstatic Beings will emit a cloud of radioactive gas that blankets the planet, wiping out all life for a period of 10,000 years. Then and only then shall comic reconstruction begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Make Us Laugh? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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