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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ionesco's work was often likened to Samuel Beckett's. In The Chairs, for example, an old couple at a lighthouse fill a room with chairs to prepare for an orator who turns out to speak only by growling. Most of Ionesco's works were funnier than Beckett's, more verbal, richer in farcical action and far less despairing. In Soprano, mock-philosophical discussion shaded into nonsense. The Lesson, a portrait of a megalomaniacal teacher, reflected dark satire of the powerful. Rhinoceros blended those themes with a manic physical portrait of a city where everyone turns into a rampaging beast...
Before Berlusconi's entry, a left-wing coalition led by the Democratic Party of the Left seemed poised to fill the breach. But the left's sweeping victory in municipal elections last December galvanized the media magnate to run for office -- a decision he attributed to "love of my country" and a desire to prevent it from falling under the sway of former communists (some of whom had pledged to break up the media monopoly that provided up to a quarter of his revenues...
...Fill all available oven-safe receptacles with this mixture. When you're hungry, take one out of the fridge and pop it in the oven. It's done when it smells like garbage...
...forsaken baseball for Hollywood glitz: Charlie Sheen reprises his role as Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn, the sport's bad boy who has traded in his Harley for Armani suits, a therapist, and cheesy cereal commercials. They have their requisite moments of epiphany, laughter, and tears. The peripheral characters help fill in the rest of the stuffing for the plot and itsplodding humor: the salty coach, the evil owner, the arrogant player on the rival team, the bad and the good girlfriend. In fact, this movie implies some interesting assertions about blond and brunette personalities, the slick golden seductrees versus...
...tired of the same old weekend activities? Have you had your fill of Harvard's vibrant social scene replete with its rollicking parties? Have you rented every movie in the Star Wars trilogy--twice? Perhaps you're looking for something new, fun and interesting...