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...driven Johnny, played magnificently by David Thewlis, who unexpectedly arrives in London to surprise his ex-girlfriend, Louise (Lesley Sharp) and proceeds to upset everyone he meets. Johnny epitomizes the lost, melancholy yet erudite state of existential angst as it stands in modern society. He "exercise" his frustrations through rough, violent sex with the random people he finds, including Louis's dark-headed, punk roomate, Sophie. Of course, Sophie and Johnny get together within the first few minutes of the film, even before Louise gets home from work, Sophie ,without any sort of guidance in her vapid, drugfilled life, finds...
Staebler and company were aglow in part bacause the Crimson's 15-3, 15-12, 15-10 win came after an odd encounter with the men from Rhode Island earlier this season. At a tournament at Vassar earlier this season, the Crimson played a rough game against a less-than-stellar Concordia. Throughout the game, the roger Williams players, waiting for their game to begin, sat at courtside laughing at the Crimson's poor play...
...confusion and spellbinding tension is Pinter's trademark: it is never quite clear what is happening, but whatever it is, it is urgently important. The menacing mysticism reaches a peak in No Man's Land, a series of drawing-room encounters soured by a barroom aura of impending rough-and- tumble. Like most great playwrights, Pinter keeps writing the same work. No Man's Land is The Homecoming with fancier furniture, Old Times with more recherche recollections, The Birthday Party with a gentler goon squad. It is also, from a playwright generous to actors, the showiest acting duel...
...RAINCOATS The Raincoats (Rough Trade/DGC...
...about rock and roll. rather than playing rock and roll music--went hand in hand with a pure belief in the do-it-yourself, amateur ethic. The ethic showed up in their economic: the original Raincoats LP was one of the first full-length releases on the cooperative Rough Trade label. It showed up in the record's crisp production, in which each movement of fingers along the electric-guitar finger-board, and each breath Gina Birch takes, can be heard. And it showed up in the lack of "technical skill" which informs each musical move: it's normal...