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...language is blatant and sometimes crass. In this short play, it is a paradox that the dialogue should seem to drag on so uselessly, while the action seems to thunder on like machine-gun fire. This slaughters both the characters and the play. In rhythmic but nonsensical spurts, so much anger builds up in these women that they start to chant "BASTARD MEN! BASTARD MEN!" in an eery, Brave New World-like crescendo, and do it more than once. The fact that boys are made of "snaps and snails and puppy dogs' tails" is hissed visciously from the tongues...
...finale, although weakly sung, is a merry crescendo of transvestism to end the evening. With all characters now in drag, and everyone happy, one has no doubt that the Adams House pool has finally found its true calling...
...couple of quick tips for avoiding total failure: 1) Lecture. Skip it. It's faster to read the material; you'll never drag yourself out of bed anyway. 2) Assignments. Just do the big ones. Call beforehand to get an extension. Make up any old excuse. 3) Section. Go. Even if you haven't done the reading, even if you don't have the two papers you've said were done for months, go. As long as the TF knows your face s/he will never fail you; most of them have hearts. 4) Cram, and remember: these are the best...
Their message is short and sharp. The deficit is a powerful drag on the economy, they say, that will require a radical retrenchment on the entitlements -- mostly Social Security, Medicare and farm-support payments -- that make up more than half of all federal spending. In a new book, Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt & Restore the American Dream, Peterson holds out the bitter pill. "We can't do it without the middle class and we can't do it without going at entitlements head...
Then you have to reckon with their effect on ads, packaging, T shirts, window design in shops, the whole reappropriation party -- amusing and even joyous at first, and then, like most parties, a drag -- that the American commercial world threw to welcome back the images and techniques Lichtenstein took from it and put into a zippier, more art-conscious form, ripe for reuse as "quality" stuff...