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...tone to the Coen Brothers, borrowing both an occasional snappy inventiveness of language (e.g. Billings' dissection of humans' "homeostasis") and a general tactic of grounding anything lofty--ideas and ideals, or here just decency--through bizarre, often inappropriate juxtaposition with the mundane. For the latter, think of The Big Lebowski's Walter and The Dude solemnly scattering their friend's ashes from a Quaker Oats box, into the wind. Thus DeGeneres' Pompano wolfs a corndog while questioning the distraught wife of the murdered. Or Billings at an autopsy, blood-sprayed by a being-buzzawed skull, protesting, absurdly, "Whoa, whoa, whoa...
...feel of the play itself can be described as a cross between Kafka's The Trial and the Coen Brothers' comedies (The Big Lebowski). The protagonist Gross, played by Tom Prince '02, is a self-proclaimed humanist who has been blackmailed into allowing Ptydepe to become the official means of intra-office communication by his assistant, the nefarious Ballas, played expertly by Johannes Mowth, and, presumably, by the silent accomplice Mr. Pillar (Malka Resnicoff '00/Hostetler). As Gross begins his quest to set things right and prevent the ridiculously efficient language from taking over, he meets an absurd cast of office...
...arranged their schedules with no classes on Tuesday and Thursday (and for any Big Lebowski fans out there), take a trip to Lanes and Games, a monster bowling alley which also features pool tables and a wild video game room. As you step into this futuristic world with your friends, all guilt about that Chaucer reading will disappear into a desperate need to beat the world at bowling or at least score in the triple digits. 9 a.m. to midnight, 195 Concord Tpke off Rt. 2 (Alewife T-stop). 876-5533. $3 to 4 for games, depending on candlepin...
Joel & Ethan Coen (The Big Lebowski) Fargo, for the white...
Even without this great character, The Big Lebowski would be a enjoyable unusually ride. But with the aid of a flawless performance Jeff Bridges, the Coens have created something more: a movie memorable not just for its weirdness but also for its good-natured take on humanity...