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...compatible with the sidewalk. If a Segway hits you, it's like being hit by another pedestrian." By traveling at three or four times walking speed, and thus turning what would have been a 30-minute walk into a 10-minute ride, Kamen contends, Segways will in effect shrink cities to the point where cars "will not only be undesirable, but unnecessary...
...highlight of the evening, however, is “Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein, or Ambivalence.” Set in a psychiatrist’s office, it focuses on the conversation between a shrink, Laura (Kiran Deol), and her needy, gay patient, Hendryk (Clint Froelich). Hendryk is a marvelously crafted character, at once thoughtful and highly amusing. He lapses into different states throughout the fairly long scene and muses on existence and the inherent ambivalence of man. While Hendryk is ranting, Laura is concerned with her own pain and pleads with her lifelong partner...
...incredible spread of food and a psychiatrist to talk to you.” Most survivors are depressed after they are kicked off, and “it helps to have somebody there to talk to.” After intensive sessions with the shrink, Nick caught up on news of the presidential election and read the entire Lord of the Rings series. He spent time with Jerri and Amber, who were kicked off just days after him. “The better I got to know Jerri, the less I liked her. But Amber and I chilled...
...while Chekov’s work may be relevant to Harvard students of today, there is no guarantee that Three Sisters will fill the 556-seat auditorium. Audiences will likely shrink during Harvard-Yale weekend, when many students leave for New Haven. And dramatic works may have even more trouble finding an audience than dance or musical shows. Over 1,600 people saw this semester’s dance show, Against the Grain. Compare that to the approximately less than 600 people who saw Marcus Stern’s adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Great...
...sunburst. None of these images is crisp around the edges—they all seem to fade into the black. The effect of this is that the images acquire movement. This is one of the few techniques Shaw uses that gives his work some intrigue. The snowflake appears to shrink as you look at it. The sun, whose edges are trimmed with orange, looks like it is fluttering. The way Shaw uses color and shading in these works is highly effective, as well. In “Etherea Blue” he uses flecks of white within the blue image...