Word: pandemoniums
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...disturbing experience. Jarman is a painter and director associated with the beautiful and strinking visual images in films like "The Last of England," "Caravaggio," and "Wittgenstein" (which was recently shown at the Harvard Film Archives). He has stripped his work to a bare minimum. "In the pandemonium of image," he states at one point, "I present you with the universal door of blue...
...American antagonism to kick it around. If the Kremlin no longer helps to orchestrate conflicts in remote countries, it presides over a veritable Mongolian hot pot of disorder at home. At the same time, impoverished lands like Somalia, with a scant sense of nationhood, remain just as prey to pandemonium as they have been since the mini-Lenins who held them together acquired a fatal bad name. Such primitive sorts of emergencies call on the world's conscience with electronic immediacy. The trouble is, too often they get primitive answers...
...just pandemonium," she says. "We were in the biology labs. The men came running into where we were, and we were all wondering what to do, whether we should leave college. It was very traumatic...
Heated argument ensued, and as the meeting approached 11 p.m.--when the council is required to leave Sever Hall--the council voted in favor of the letter. However, the council degenerated into pandemonium as members who opposed the letter shouted for a quorum count and a revote...
Durang and director Les Waters do manage to create an intolerably grating atmosphere through the use of screeching sirens, loud music, and strobe lights. However, blasting loud music and shouting curses does not a clever satire make. And unfortunately for Water's concept, this pandemonium makes the evening a little too unpleasent for an audience which, after all, has chosen to go to the theater rather than watch...