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...best, but Bright Lights Big City (no comma now) has a more engaging mix of substance and flash than any other musical so far this dismal season. Goodman's adaptation, quite faithful to the novel, follows Jamie (nameless in the book though called Jamie in the 1988 movie starring Michael J. Fox) from his dreary job as a fact checker for a snooty, New Yorker-style magazine through his debauched, drug-addled all-nighters on the New York club circuit. It fleshes out, via flashbacks, his fashion-model ex-wife, with whom he's still obsessed, and his mother, whose...
...senses, the artist last week rectified the oversight and announced that he is planning to annul his marriage, not because he doesn't love his wife, but because he believes "contracts are made by man to guarantee the possibility of divorce." At a Madrid press conference, the nameless--and occasionally pantless--one offered this provocatively convoluted explanation: "Mayte and I are joined for life, and the best way to demonstrate it is to do away with the legal bonds that people demand." The musician and Mayte will re-pledge their commitment in a "symbolic" ceremony in Spain on Valentine...
...humbling testimony to the complex civilizations that once flourished there. Even the names of these peoples evoke power and mystery: Aztecs, Maya, Zapotecs, Toltecs, Olmecs. But of all the great pre-Columbian metropolises that dot the region, arguably the most magnificent of all belonged to a people who remain nameless. The Aztecs, who took over the area some 25 miles north of modern Mexico City in the 15th century, were convinced it was built by supernatural beings. Their name for the city, which we still use: Teotihuacan, or Place of the Gods...
...down with too many heavy-duty courses about obscure topics with lengthy term papers, I decided a little late in the semester that I would indulge my Core tooth. I walked into Sanders Theatre to attend the fourth lecture of a certain well-known Harvard gut which shall remain nameless...well, okay--it rhymes with Gyros, pronounced correctly. Anyway, amid the post-lecture melee, I approached the head...
...consequence of Rice's turn of phrase here is a remarkably artful handling of sexual scenes. It appears that sleeping with nameless people of both genders is as essential to Armand's becoming a vampire as drinking blood. Armand's coming-of-age becomes a veritable Debbie Does Dallas as he screws his way across Europe. As subtle as Rice is in her sexual descriptions and as cheerfully dirty-minded as I am, however, I'm convinced that it was the baths between Marius and Armand, the sadomasochistic romps and the vampire-mortal orgy that made me put this book...