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Michael Kennard (Mump) and John Turner (Smoot) deliver a witty and thoughtful performance that often borders on the hilarious. Using movement as their primary mode of expression (they do speak, but whatever it is, it ain't English), Mump and Smoot enact a ridiculous tale of high misadventure, playing on themes ranging from pop culture to cannibalism, from domestic violence to wacky religious cults...
...their musical bag of tricks to Great Woods for two sold-out shows. The band has been on the road since the beginning of April, just after the release of its most recent album Hoist. With Hoist, the band made a conscious attempt to explore the studio as a mode of creativity. Unlike their previous albums, the material for Hoist had never been played before an audience--the idea being that the songs would grow to maturity in the studio instead of onstage...
...such beguiling folderol as he commences Big Dreams (Pantheon; 546 pages; $24), which records a long meander around California. Wistfully, lightly, the author recollects arriving in San Francisco as a 25-year-old in 1969. "In the Haight-Ashbury, I rented a cheap flat and furnished it a la mode with a massive stereo and a mattress on the floor. Something new and exciting seemed to enter my orbit almost daily -- seven-grain bread, Zen meditation, the pungent smell of eucalyptus leaves. There was an earthquake, 4.7 on the Richter scale ... And one night at the Fillmore Auditorium, while Janis...
...beginning of the year, we were a little unsure, a little out of practice," says Legutko. The Adams House resident said it took time to get into a "full competitive mode" because he had taken a semester off last year and hadn't fenced for eight months...
...appetite for sheer spectacle. Not always by design, the Clinton Administration is far and away the most entertaining in recent memory (excepting, of course, its wonky bits). Nannygate, the $200 haircut, Gore- Perot, Whitewater, Troopergate, Hillary's commodities trades ... we've had a government in chronic sweeps mode for more than a year...