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...African officials believe their country's race problems will disappear if a free press is unable to report them, they are only confusing the messenger with the message -- and may be underestimating their own people. As the Boston Globe observed last week, "Despots throughout history have found that the lust for freedom dies hard...
Last year most of these same folks perpetrated Re-Animator, a dizzy, affecting parable of a grad student's revenge. The student's plagiarizing professor is beheaded (but not exactly killed), and the woman they both lust for can be revived from death only by becoming a zombie. From Beyond eschews such metaphysical satire for some fine gore effects and a hypersonic tone that raises horror to farce. No masterpiece here, just a bloody good entertainment. It's criticproof...
Lunge, Grip's title roughly corresponds to order of the acts. In Act One, the characters desperately lust and lunge after one another, and all parties succeed in ending up thoroughly frustrated. In Act Two, the characters seize on to relationships and grip the life out of them. The staging is as sparse as you can get--amidst the heat ducts of Mather basement, the audience gets caught up in the claustrophobia...
...Atomised libido was misty in the air," James recalls. The combination of miniskirts and minibicycles nearly unhinged him: "When a girl's tights came towards you on a Moulton, they were making scissor movements at eye level, especially if you were on your knees sobbing with lust." He stumbled into a few affairs and even found a couple of devoted girlfriends, but he also soon discovered that "virginity is a recurring condition...
Though at times excessive, the story's poetic description often creates a compelling sense of sensual beauty as seen through the devouring eyes of the enchanter. Pulsing with lust, he watches the child play hopscotch...