Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What has changed to make the Brattle less popular among Harvard students? Maybe they haven't seen the inside of the Brattle. It's as different from the shoebox theaters of Copley Square as you can imagine. The screen is huge, covered by a velvety curtain, and encircled by a balcony for those who want...
Blue Man Group uses all this "shit" to recreate the accumulation culture of America in the late 20th century. "Tubes" takes the icons of the 'nineties--the Internet, Screen Savers, processed foods and forces the audience to recognize them for what they are--man-made objects which we control; they don't control us. Says Chris Wink, "Modernization has separated us into cubicles, and now we have to buy our way back together. Theater... is the last bastion of direct interaction...
...other end of the spectrum, some segments of the show are intentionally laden with metaphorical meaning. The fractal segment, in which these exotic patterns become visible on a screen as the Blue Men spread shaving cream with trowels, is significant to Blue Man cosmology. According to Stanton, the unpredictability of fractals, their structure which is both methodical and chaotic, reflects the randomness of modern life and proves that "We [mankind] are not that crazy after all." Goldman is intrigued that "patterns do a thing which nobody expected them to do, which is look more similar the more complicated they become...
...year-old single-screen theater shows classic, second-run art, special reissue and first-run art films--something the Brattle's directors are finding increasingly difficult with their current budget...
When the theater's lease expires in 2001, Lampke hopes the single-screen art house will not become obsolete...