Word: logical
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Sometimes it pays off: Batman Forever grabbed $106 million in its first 10 days in North American theaters. But the strategy has a sort of kamikaze logic. Since there are more big movies than early-summer weekends, most films--even the hits--will be seven-day wonders. So it has been, with few exceptions, this season. Crimson Tide gives way to Die Hard with a Vengeance is vaporized by Casper gets eaten by Congo is beaten by Batman Forever gets a poke in the eye from Pocahontas. Hey, it's a jungle out there. One weekend you're the lion...
...sound unpromisingly clinical, but Lapine -- in this revision of a play originally staged in 1981 -- does an adroit job of interweaving day-event and night-revelation. The dream sequences (which include a dance into hell) are spookily compelling and splendidly differentiated. The play has the true fierceness of dream logic -- the sense that you are watching events unfold that are both unpredictable and ineluctable. A team of five musicians pilots us from one realm to the other, artfully building toward songs that never emerge. (Lapine knows all about linking action to music; he wrote the books for such Stephen Sondheim...
...against a deep Postmodernist puzzle. If a flag is a symbol, how can a replica of a flag be anything but another flag? The T at the start of this sentence is not a replica of the letter T, but of course the letter T itself. By the same logic, flag patches, flag bikini bras, underpants and decals are all equally flags and potentially entitled to the full protection...
Some students try to pretend Harvard is just like every other college by calling the entryways "vertical hallways." This is deceptive logic, though, since climbing stairs to the fifth floor of Matthews is significantly tougher than gliding effortlessly down a normal dorm hall...
Turk also charges that Frieds' temperoverpowers his reason and logic when his opponentsdisagree with...