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Though the reaction against his musical foreshadowed Boston's heated reaction to Durang's plays many years down the line, the success of his show "upped my feelings of confidence and also reminded me how much I enjoyed making an audience laugh". Thus lifted from his slump, Durang wrote his next play, "The Nature and Purpose of the Universe" in a matter of days. This one act play, stretching Catholic theology and family drama to outrageous limits, is the first incarnation of the sophisticated satire which characterizes many of Durang's plays. "I felt like it was an enormous relief...
...years ago, the Hughes brothers, Allen and Albert, made Menace II Society, a violent melodrama whose film-school flash won kudos. Last year's top novice was Kevin Smith, with his clever, scratchy comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living...
...Maddux in the first game of the Series, had a perfect 7-0 post season record. Key for Cleveland: offensive production from someone else besides centerfielder Kenny Lofton. Despite leading the American league in hitting, the Indians are hitting an anemic .190 as a team in the Series, a slump that won't be easy to halt against Maddux, a pitcher that many feel is the best in baseball...
This all came after her freshman year, in which she led the team in scoring. Evidently, Stauffer knows not of any sophomore slump...
Collins was instrumental in helping the squad break out of a two-week-long scoring slump, as she registered her first collegiate goal last week in a 3-1 win over New Hampshire. She followed that up with a goal and an assist in the next game, a 3-0 blanking of California...