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...central setting is the Kit Kat Club, a sleazy microcosm of Germany in transition. The songs and dances performed there form an ironic counterpoint to the action, which has mainly to do with the mad affairs of Americanborn Sally Bowles (Liza's role), a Kit Kat entertainer, who has dedicated her life to "divine decadence...
...KAT GRIEBE Twin Oaks Community Louisa...
...tobacco and alcohol is, in fact, discouraged at Twin Oaks, and all drugs, including marijuana, are banned. So is television, which is considered a cultural poison. "We decided that we just weren't strong enough to stand up to television," says Kat Griebe, one of Twin Oaks' charter founders and, at 40, one of the oldest members. "Its powerful message is that of middle-class American values, which we reject?a high level of consumption, streamlined cosmetic standards of beauty, male dominance, the use of violence as a problem solver, and the underlying assumption that life should be a constant...
...South Anna River?false modesty is another of the sins that are not reinforced?and there is plenty of folk singing and dancing. In a departure from Skinner's rather puritanical Walden Two, sex is considered, as one member put it, a "pleasant pastime, like anything else." Adds Kat: "We don't have a very high opinion of marriage?it often becomes possessive. We do have a high regard for what Skinner calls 'abiding affection...
Guston's obvious debts are to American graphic art, to "some of the comic strips I used to really love-Mutt and Jeff, and Krazy Kat." But the idiom is overloaded to the edge of portentousness. It is as if Guston flipped back to the late '30s, when he was a WPA muralist -those remote days when it was still believed that political comment could give art relevance...