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Dennis P. Eichhorn's "Real Stuff" (Swifty Morales Press; 208 pp.; $19.95) collects highlights from the mid-'90s series of the same name. Part of an autobio boomlette of the time, Eichhorn's stories stood out for their juicy barroom-vignette style. Full of violence, sex and drugs, nearly all of them could begin, "I remember one time ?" Put into rough chronological order, starting from his childhood, the collection slowly adds up to a portrait of a rebellious baby boomer - from angry gridiron jock to drugged-out longhair, and into mellowed middle...
...mid-sixties Eichhorn discovers LSD and begins a period of odd jobs and wandering around. One remarkable story tells of a college trip to a mental home while tripping on acid. Each of the patients is brought out like a freak show, ending with the man who wouldn't talk. Asked a simple question by Eichhorn, he speaks right up, denouncing the institution. After reading for a while, though it becomes clear that the tales of crazy women, bar fights and pot smoking are a way to avoid any more meaningful revelations. For example, Eichhorn's adoption, getting kicked...
...commentary on controversial current events. Inherit the Wind focused on the 1925 "Monkey Trial" of John Thomas Scopes, a teacher accused of teaching evolution, but it was really about intolerance in the McCarthy era. The 1955 play "was written because we were indignant, appalled at thought control in the mid-'50s," Lawrence told the Los Angeles Times...
...outdoor showcase of the body painting, initiation and men's ceremonies of the Yirrkala region of northeast Arnhem Land, it was a show more organic than organized. On opening night, indigenous women in the audience cackled, men heckled and a singing elder left the stage coughing in mid-performance. For white audiences, it was a matter of leaving behind the assumptions of Western theater. Enacted on a red-dirt stage at dusk, it brought a sense of simple ritual to Adelaide. "That's it for tonight," said Body Dreaming's host Banduk Marika as she concluded proceedings. "That was sunset...
...this partial renovation—slated to begin mid-June and end before students arrive for the fall semester—is a far cry from the full overhaul of the MAC that many administrators and students have been advocating for years...