Word: gargantuas
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Other entertaining and illuminating chapters include "Examples and ! Principles," in which Paulos shows why the giant Gargantua would be a physical impossibility; "Pseudo-science," a saline, agnostic examination of parapsychology and astrology; and "Statistics, Trade-Offs and Society," in which some astonishing questions arise. Among them: What percentage of college women enjoy watching the Three Stooges? (According to his personal survey...
Andrew C. Watson '88, the president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) agrees. Last year he staged a travelling version of Gargantua in different house courtyards. "One important aspect of theater is that it is dangerous," Watson says. "Being outside heightens that danger. And besides, the audience got to throw Jello...
...books, exclaimed one French critic, "possess all the passionate excess of Rabelais' Gargantua, the verbal virtuosity of a Joyce, the demonic cruelty of Celine's best work." Mon dieu, who is this born-again Shakespeare? Charles Bukowski. You know, the 64-year-old Los Angeles-based laureate of American lowlife whose Henry Miller-ish paeans to booze and broads (Love Is a Dog for Hell, Notes of a Dirty Old Man) typically sell only around 5,000 copies in the U.S. In France, more than 100,000 copies of the Boho's short and tall stories have left the shelves...
WHICH IS why our disbelief does manage to be suspended. All the characters in the script are caricatures and all the players in the play are characters. In a production like Gargantua, it's of paramount importance that the actors seem like they're having a good time so that the audience can't helped being sucked into the fun. For this feat, the entire company deserves lavish praise...
...Gargantua is the perfect thing to see while talking to a friend you haven't seen since you last sat down before your Macintosh or last entered Lamont, because even if you miss a minute or two, it doesn't matter. There's no plot--there is merely a series of sub-plots that lampoon Medieval values with some interesting references to modern times...