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...they can also engender maddening side effects, like the "lindane crazies": a drug-induced syndrome that isn't in the medical literature but is nonetheless real for its victims. "They come in with things taped to little pieces of paper," Serrano says. "It's just bits of cotton or lint. They say, 'I feel them right here,' but there's nothing. When you ask them what they've been using, they say, 'I've been using lindane for the past six months...
...essence, it's two hours of fluff. Not the dryer-lint variety either. We're talking sparkly, ethereal fluff here. Costumes by Academy Award winner Gabriela Pescucci and a setting under the Tuscan sun bake Titania's World in a glittery glow. Hoffman's only departure from The Riverside Shakespeare is his decision to set the romance in Victorian Italy--a transposition that further enhances the plot of romantic confusion. As the frilly dresses and neckties come off, the characters wander into a timeless forest netherworld, where sparkle is queen and the sprites are anything but virginal...
...shot him. There's Gale, who ridicules Freundlich's melodramatic pauses but turns down an on-air spot with another network because it is not as dedicated to journalism as he is. And there's Mona (Catherine Lloyd Burns), McKenzie's personal assistant, so toadying that she wears a lint brush around her neck...
...miss out on the chance of four millennia, I turned my eyes skyward yet again. The same pea-sized white blob hung in the sky, and it was only after I cleaned my eyeglasses that I was convinced it was indeed a comet and not a piece of lint from the laundry room--piece of lint whose death toll was presently 39. I shared my disappointment with a companion, but her reverence was incorrigible. Others, too, seemed mesmerized and hypnotized by a cosmic aura of awe and amazement. I began to feel a little inadequate. Perhaps I was missing something...
Based on the false assumption that I do laundry and therefore actually have something to iron, I own one of those too. I've found my lint remover to be handy at sucking up saltine crumbs from strange crevices. I even have an 800 number in order to call home without being charged. I called two nights ago to assure my mother that I'd not been swallowed by quicksand, and a strange man with a low voice named Don answered. Luckily, I had the wrong number...