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...scenes can be downright awkward: when Alex and Ellen first interact at a club, the writing becomes far too blunt for the complex emotional situation. In this way, Beane’s words at times threatens to overwhelm his plot. While Diane, who seems to be made purely of plastic, venom, and dynamite, can rhapsodize and finish off with an expletive-filled punch line, the same sort of writing comes off as glib in the mouths of more earthy characters like Mitchell or Alex. The real success in this method of punchy writing is Ellen, whose inexhaustible supply of sarcastic...
...Zona Rosa district last Friday afternoon when he saw a flash of brilliant light followed by a thundering bang and the sound of shattering glass. Minutes later, ambulances and police rushed into the street to find three blood-soaked people crying for help and the remains of a crude plastic explosives device. One of the injured died on the way to hospital. "Being in Mexico, I first thought it was an earthquake or something," Kohl said, visibly shaken from the blast. "I had no idea that bombs went off here...
...show; a similar pattern of colors turns up in a group of color photographs of the present-day city in a different room. The more you look, the more you find. It is therefore a pleasure to find every detail of the show executed with precise care. The plastic frame holding a book’s slip-jacket is perfectly recessed into the plaster wall as it bends around a corner, for example, and the speakers which play a hopeful Latin tune about Caracas on repeat are hidden by beautiful wood grates.There are details like this everywhere through the exhibit...
When you peel off the cellophane and pry open the plastic case of a new CD, you’re always hopeful that the disc will deliver something special. Maybe it will introduce you to an artist who’s trying to break with tradition and create something new. Or maybe, if the artist doesn’t push the boundaries of music, the product will still boast some diversity. At the very least, said artist should present songs that are distinguishable from one another. Unfortunately, Jason Collett seems hopelessly incapable of doing any of these things. The folk...
...face Macau shows to the world today may be its 29 sparkling casinos, but one of the last links with the city's gambling past can still be found two miles away from the main strip, in a plastic reproduction of Rome's Coliseum that stands out amid the dowdy surroundings of its working-class neighborhood. Inside, six sinewy greyhounds stand shivering on an oval race track, waiting for a mud-stained mechanical rabbit to give them something to chase. Even on this Saturday night, most of the red plastic seats at the Yat Yuen Canidrome remain empty. "Before, when...