Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those screen folks we're emulating had their soundtracks specially superimposed upon their make-believe lifestyles. But you, poor thing, are cruising around with Papa Don't Preach strewing its irrelevant pop-Catholic message through your culturally-raped brain. Depersonalized top 40 is not the way to apply musical direction to a meaningless life...
...using a slide projector to illustrate a brilliant point in one of your fabulous lectures. When it comes time to turn down the lights and put the slide on the screen high above the lecture hall, you should...
...exam awards bonus points for fine arts and VES professors who can abuse the projectionist by yelling "focus" every time a new slide comes up on the screen...
...claims to be a "rabid union-man" after betraying his fellow actors while president of the Screen Actors Guild and busting the air-traffic controllers union when president of the United States. He tells Israeli and Jewish leaders he filmed death camps at the end of World War II "so I'd never forget," yet he spent the war at home. No matter that many of his stories are false and others distant memories of movies seen long ago: He's just making a point. And Americans, who twice have elected him President, are complicit in the make believe...
...mistress and his male lover. Durang, who has made wondrous mock of such sacred institutions as Roman Catholicism, child rearing and the Hollywood musical, might have considered confronting the last taboo by updating his satire to the Age of AIDS. But no. The play has come to the screen inert and toxic, a poisonous time capsule...