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...friends with kids like these in middle school. They carried razor blades around in their pockets, carved their ex-boyfriend's initials into their arms, stubbed out cigarettes on their hands, and wore angry red wounds on their knuckles, wrists, calves and thighs. In her new book, A Bright Red Scream; Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain, Marilee Strong tries to explain what is to most, inexplicable...
...about 35 minutes and back up. The divers are connected to the boat with hoses, and video cameras attached to their helmets relay what they see. When a diver finds something, it is too dangerous to kneel and retrieve it because the jet is now a field of razor blades. One diver holds the other by the back of his suit and eases him down...
...difficult it was for him. Lord knows, it was painful just to watch. I was almost willing to swallow his claim that his answers in the Jones deposition were "legally accurate." I had hoped he wouldn't try to slice his own words into a meaningless pile of razor-thin legalisms, but I told myself his lawyers had probably demanded it. So I set it aside...
...haunting performance without saying a word--one that resonates in your head for days. Erin Billings '99, as Vodya's mother, laces her character with such hostile helplessness that one wants to both hug her and run far away from her. Her poisonous glares at Rodent and her razor-sharp words chill the entire audience to the bone; yet one cannot help but wonder if, should one be in her situation, one could act any differently...
...Shakespeare's insight into human nature cuts like a straight razor," says Eric Bogosian, one of the well-known playwrights commissioned to write sketches for Love's Fire. To be sure, the great plays still connect with us because they distill and dramatize great emotions, the kind that don't date. The best new productions of Shakespeare succeed by shocking us into thinking we're seeing something new--while convincing us, in the end, that...