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...great interest to anyone who “wants to see something that is really a creative endeavor.” The show is set in the 1940s and focuses on Ben Murphy, an office worker struggling to escape job pressures and conformity who stages a one-man rebellion against the clock and the dehumanizing forces of an increasingly mechanized society. O’Gara describes it as “a riveting trip along the boundaries between conformity and freedom, love and despair, reality and insanity.” Emphasizing that the play’s themes are increasingly...
...politics," says a senior CIA hand. "We're the meat in the sandwich. People hear what they want to hear from our reports." Agency insiders say that if Tenet tried anything heavy-handed to please one side or the other, he would have a rebellion on his hands from CIA analysts. Insists Tenet: "We draw lines in the sand about anybody ever telling us what to do. I wouldn't stand for it, and the President wouldn't stand...
...album kicks into gear from the first lick and maintains its intensity to the last defiant riff. Songs like “Inhuman Creation Station” throb with rebellion against society’s shackles. With disjointed lyrics sketching out a mocking theme (“Work with the team to meet the deadline!!! / A modern man cannot survive / Drowning in formaldehyde”), the song pounds with individualistic energy...
...need to be protected from Pinocchio? "The notion of trying to shield children from violence is pernicious," says Richard Wunderlich, co-author with Thomas J. Morrissey of the recently published cultural study, Pinocchio Goes Postmodern (Routledge; 257 pages). "In Italy the church fathers were once concerned that Pinocchio encouraged rebellion, where the current concern is that the story seems to reward obedience." Collodi's original conception still speaks to modern souls, says co-screenwriter Vincenzo Cerami, because "he's innocent, full of life, existing in an infantile Eden, looking for what Freud called the pleasure principle. He has to accept...
...need to be protected from Pinocchio? "The notion of trying to shield children from violence is pernicious," says Richard Wunderlich, co-author with Thomas J. Morrissey of the recently published cultural study, Pinocchio Goes Postmodern (Routledge; 257 pages). "In Italy the church fathers were once concerned that Pinocchio encouraged rebellion, where the current concern is that the story seems to reward obedience." Collodi's original conception still speaks to modern souls, says co-screenwriter Vincenzo Cerami, because "he's innocent, full of life, existing in an infantile Eden, looking for what Freud called the pleasure principle. He has to accept...