Word: mitzvahs
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Living on the margins of life and sanity, they have time for family history and sentiment, for religious tradition and, yes, for lost little boys. They think a better name for Steven would be Franz Lidz, resonant as it is with romantic and artistic striving. They think a Bar Mitzvah is essential to his spiritual growth. And you never can tell when lessons in evading government functionaries (like a building inspector) will come in handy. Somehow they get Steven safely through his first encounters with mortality and onrushing manhood...
...first act gives way to a more serious, slightly more disillusioned second act. Two years have passed; Trina and Mendel are married; Whizzer and Martin have broken up; and the "lesbians from next door" are always running in and out. It is the year of Jason's Bar Mitzvah, and the characters all seem to hope that this one pivotal event will smooth over their unstable lives. Whizzer, however, shows up again, complicating everything by getting back together with Martin, aggravating Trina, and, finally, falling mysteriously...
...fairly reliable work. Unfortunately, when Hooker strays too far from his standard style, the results are disappointing. For example, the first song, "Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)," sounds like Santana's own classic "Black Magic Woman" at its high point, but at its low point resembles a Bar Mitzvah band's version of Tito Puente. In a sense, Hooker's voice and Santana's style are completely incongruous. Or in other words, blues and samba just...
...those unaffected, we should remind everyone that Dylan R. Nieman '98 has a cousin. Dylan's cousin had a bar mitzvah. And Dylan had a tuxedo he was going to wear to his cousin's bar mitzvah. Perhaps it was a heavy tuxedo--or so the ceiling sprinkler head must have thought. After hanging the garment on the aforementioned safety equipment, the entire dorm quickly became flooded with water and some type of fire-retardant tar substance...
Dylan R. Nieman '98 hung his tuxedo for his cousin's bar mitzvah on a water sprinkler head at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, setting off sprinklers throughout the building...