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...Next item on the danger list is the keyboard. It may sound silly, but you'd be surprised how many people spill coffee or beer on their keyboards. The keyboard can look speciously abuse-resistant, but in reality the electrical contacts of the keys are exposed to the outside world. Any liquid that finds its way into the keyboard may short-circuit these contacts and literally fry the whole device...
...posing as an opera singer and never suspected that the lady was a man. (According to Liaison, Joyce Wadler's fascinating new biography of the diplomat, the opera singer was able to fold his genitals inside his body, thus giving the naked illusion of femininity.) From this International Enquirer item, Hwang spun a phantasm of multiple myopia: a man preposterously blinded by love, a European culture blinkered by imperialist prejudice in its view of the mystic East...
...item which piqued my interest and initiated my observations was actually a T-shirt. Produced by one of the campus Christian groups, the backside defiantly proclaimed "Nietzsche is dead"--obviously an attempt at a witty counterclaim to Nietzsche's "God is Dead." Now there is something clever about this, if, say, the claim were about something a little less weighty than the existence of God or the afterlife...
...cause the viewer headache instead of render a harmonious picture of 19th-century society, for the camera darts about in a peripatetic ad nauseum of rapid-fire montage as if it were affixed to the neck of a hummingbird. Again and again, its strategy is to alight on one item after another--a glove, a calling card, a painting, a bauble--until it seems that Martin is just showing off his assemblage of period pieces. What's more, color is splashed onto the screen willy-nilly and fade-ins and fade-outs occur with little respect for the coherence...
...also downplays one other item of the weekend's festivities: "I feel pretty sure that the queen won't be watching women's soccer this weekend...