Word: flashbacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lonely girl sits in her house perusing the Princeton alumni directory for her boss. She makes a list, noting the names of the men. The class of 1983 seems to her a microcosm of successful Americans--Vice President of this company, CEO of that firm. That's now. Flashback 15 years though, and they were probably as unexciting as her male classmates at Harvard. Sigh, the boys. Suddenly, she sits up at the rumble of a truck, realizing that she must show the garage repair person the ailing pulley...
...band is not a flashback, it's a move forward; it's not a reunion, but a kind of reincarnation. The Other Ones are headlining the Furthur Festival, which started on June 25 and will be playing dates around the country through the end of July. So far, the festival has proved to be one of the summer's most popular musical tours, selling out most stops...
This seems to be the general premise behind this vision of Pericles, whose framing device--a basketball court infested by pre-adolescents--sets the stage for the play's ruling aesthetic: a massive, hallucinatory flashback to middle school. The "players," a group of kids whose dress and language evoke a sort of archetypal, semi-mythical 1980s Experience, are unwillingly pressed into service as actors by a terrifying bag lady (Gower, the play's narrator, here played with an alarming intensity by Jessamyn Conrad '00). Since they retain their eighth-grade personalities, the romancing and sexual innuendo of the first half...
...first stop in the Yard, I learned that the little guard house by Johnston Gate cost $57,000 to design and build. Flashback to a Crimson article on the Congressional Committee on Higher Education (News, Dec. 12): "Harvard's Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs has been working to convince government officials that the high price of a Harvard education is justified by the high costs it faces as a research institution." The second stop in the Yard brought us to the "statue of three lies." I winced when some tourists rubbed the foot...
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