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...Music, for example, is surprisingly subordinate to the plot. It is convenient that the main characters are musicians and musical agents for the purpose of fitting in songs, but music fails to be the full-bodied theme it is in Twelfth Night. Viola's name is, after all, a pun on the name of the musical instrument, and Twelfth Night opens with Orsino's well-known declamation: "If music be the food of love, play on." A disembodied voice delivers this famous line at the beginning of Your Own Thing, then punctures the effect by adding, "I can't remember...
...world's there and it's free to use, pun police notwithstanding: the current performance of Arthur Miller's Broken Glass at the Kirkland Junior Common Room can only be described as fragmented--but intriguingly so. The actors have realized their characters into living and breathing beings with mannerisms and mental meanderings only to be foiled by a pervasive lack of synchronicity that leaves every interaction a half-beat off. The result is something less than a couple of human tragedies and something more like an emotional detective story...
After Felix's inevitable imprisonment, publicist Brenda Bodkin continues his sleuthing just like a good Agatha Christie heroine would; her graceful conniving reawakens police interest in the case. Mortimer even indulges in the requisite bad pun or two, when Mirry speaks of being 'dead on time' or when the ever-lustful Felix fantasizes dramatically about "making his 'quietus with a bare bodkin." The solution to the mystery is not especially convoluted and veteran mystery fans will likely guess the conclusion long before the end, but in no way will this diminish their pleasure in the consistently suspenseful final chapters...
...tools and trash. Any other artists couldn't get away with such preciousness, but we can't help but admire and buy into Fischli and Weiss' jokey yet obsessive conviction. Their installation of a museum installation turns a common '80s critique of display mechanics into a charming and irresistible pun...
That is not to blame the theory of communism per se as the cause of these famines--it can be argued that these famines are just examples of the poor execution (no pun intended) of the communist ideal. However, I do mean to point out that these regimes used the same rationale to justify their excesses: the rights of the collective over the rights of the individual...