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...through long, wire-like projections known as axons, these cells influence neurological activity in many regions, including the nucleus accumbens, the primitive structure that is one of the brain's key pleasure centers. At a purely chemical level, every experience humans find enjoyable--whether listening to music, embracing a lover or savoring chocolate--amounts to little more than an explosion of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens, as exhilarating and ephemeral as a firecracker...
...slayer of her generation. When the bloodsuckers emerge, she must be there to make mincemeat out of them. But what to do on a night when a 12th century prophecy has proclaimed that the world could come to an end, and a cute boy named Owen, an Emily Dickinson lover even, has finally asked you out? This is, of course, Buffy's unending dilemma...
...that people aren't sad, don't get kicked around, never die. It's that music can evaporate blue moods even as it atomizes them. The nostalgic poignancy of Griffith's Two for the Road hints at chances missed but also the pleasure of a longtime lover's company. Saint Teresa of Avila, a requiem for a childhood friend who killed herself, is addressed less to the dead woman or to those who miss her than to the saint who is expected to welcome her to heaven. Everything's Comin' Up Roses is a postmortem snapshot: "When I'm pushin...
...then Wang Kuilong (Ch'ien-hung Chan) reappears in New Park. A wealthy and exotic figure, he is somehow connected to the park legend about the long-dead hustler Phoenix Boy, and his Dragon Prince, the lover who destroyed him in a fit of mad passion long ago. The play's main themes have by this time been clearly laid out: Sex and love, home and banishment and living with--or escaping from--one's past. The second act enlarges on those themes, bringing the players into a new setting--the Cozy Nest, a gay bar opened by Chief Yang...
...woman standing in front of a mirror. Henry D. Clarke '00 set his performance of Sonnet 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth/I do believe her, though I know she lies") in an intriguing tableau in which the speaker, in deshabille, addressed his sleeping lover. Only Marty R. Thiry '00 (clad in Harvard sweatshirt and jeans) offered a performance closer to simple recitation, with Sonnet 130: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like...