Word: riotousness
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...must-see is Don Hertzfeldt’s brilliant satire Rejected, a nominee for the Best Animated Short Oscar in 2001. Rejected purports to track its animator’s unraveling as his absurdist shorts go unappreciated in the commercial world; it’s black, bizarre and riotous. It may also be the only Oscar nominee ever to feature an anthropomorphic puffball screaming “My anus is bleeding!” over and over. Friday at 5:15, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday...
Thankfully, the show’s fifth and final play is a thoroughly enjoyable Bollywood tribute. It’s a riotous parody of the evening’s themes, conducted entirely in rhymed verse and full of Bollywood’s requisite song-and-dance outbursts. Although this act is the evening’s most shoddily acted, it is far and away the best of the lot. The audience and the cast are quite ready, after the concerted seriousness of the evening’s first hour, to party...
...plant (Strobilanthus kunthianus), which grows in abundance in and around Munnar and is best enjoyed from Top Station. This exotic shrub's flowerings are few and far between?only once every 12 years, in fact?but according to locals are worth the wait, with blossoms carpeting the hillsides in riotous shades of violet, azure and lilac. And with one dormancy cycle almost complete, travelers planning a trip to Munnar might want to time their visit to coincide with the Neelakurinji's next breathtaking bloom, in 2006. There surely won't be a better time to head for the hills...
...That party may not have been a Sydney Mardi Gras with a Gay Men's Chorus and dykes on bikes?and it may not have been officially backed?but it was a three-day fest of international proportions, held on Sentosa island. Its cheeky centerpiece was a riotous party at the island's Musical Fountain, timed for Aug. 9, Singapore's National...
...with purchase." Searching for the birth mom of the abandoned Bruiser, she discovers that Mrs. Bruiser is being used in experiments by a cosmetics conglomerate. Devoted though she is to lip gloss, this is too much for Elle. Off she goes to our nation's capital, a splash of riotous color in a sea of gloomy suits, to propagate "Bruiser's Bill," prohibiting vivisection in pursuit of improved toners and blushes...