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...Birnbaum’s inclusion of modern elements like rock songs, rollerblades, and neon lights creates a frivolous, fun atmosphere in excellent keeping with the themes of “The Way of the World.” However, other moments, like a fairly long, sexually-charged dance number which seemed to be included because someone thought the play had gone too long without anything sexy happening, are less seamless and more puzzling...
...time and who try hard to avoid capture, and mass killers like Cho. But the central role of narcissism plainly connects them. Only a narcissist could decide that his alienation should be underlined in the blood of strangers. The flamboyant nature of these crimes is like a neon sign pointing to the truth. Charles Whitman playing God in his Texas clock tower, James Huberty spraying lead in a California restaurant, Harris and Klebold in their theatrical trench coats--they're all stars in the cinema of their self-absorbed minds...
...when they went bowling last Thursday. Jeff Mangum—the lead singer of now-defunct indie pop legends Neutral Milk Hotel—decided to break his five-year hiatus from performing in public to whip out his guitar for the awestruck WHRBies, transporting them out of the neon glare of Lanes and Games into Holland, 1945…A certain Fly member decided to take his post-spring break revelry to a whole new level this weekend when he entered a room in Eliot that was not his own. Instead of exiting gracefully, he did the next best...
...Clad in neon-green stickers reading “My Dog Loves Fresh Pond,” some 50 men and women gathered before the Cambridge City Council last night, protesting a proposed measure that would restrict the number and movement of dogs in the Fresh Pond area...
...Harvard students are daily dazed by the unforgiving neon glow of modernity, and we need our reactionary refuge. And if we can’t recline in the storied pubs of Oxford or Cambridge, our coming college tavern mockup is as close as we?...