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...Appropriately, The Elephant Vanishes is a difficult beast to describe. Based on three short stories from the author's 1993 English-language collection of that name, the production is set in Tokyo and performed in Japanese with English (or, in Paris, French) supertitles. It concerns a kitchen-equipment salesman obsessed with the disappearance of an elephant from the local zoo, a young couple who deal with an attack of predawn munchies by robbing an all-night McDonald's, and a housewife who hasn't slept in 17 days...
...That doesn't begin to describe it. Using projected images, video footage, crisp sound effects, dazzling lighting and an acrobatic cast that flits around on wires, McBurney melds the three stories into a meditation on anxiety and loss amid the placid routines of life in urban Japan. The kitchen salesman's elephant fixation ruins a potential romance. The larcenous couple learn they don't really know each other ("What was she doing with ski masks?" asks the exasperated husband. "We've never gone skiing.") The sleepless housewife realizes she despises her well-ordered life and runs off to a potential...
...Zoe’s Kitchen, a Greek eatery, will open by the end of November in the basement-level storefront on 1105 Mass. Ave that was formerly occupied by Johnny’s, between Massive Records and University Market...
Theophilos Vallas, the owner of Zoe’s Kitchen, said that the new restaurant would feature many of the same menu items that Johnny’s Luncheonette offered...
...there was more than their friendship at work. "I was very respectful of his health situation," McAuliffe says. "However, I did not miss the opportunity to tell him how important it is to get him back on the trail." He said they spent about three hours together at the kitchen table, playing Oh Hell!, one of Clinton's favorite card games. "He beat me both games," McAuliffe says, "and he talked politics the whole time...