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...point is that ballet can be exciting. Hey, the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream was reminiscent of your standard soap opera episode of One Life to Live. I even drew a flow chart to keep track of who loved whom and who was supposed to love whom. How much more excitement could you imagine possible in 40 minutes...
Orthodontic issues provide an unusual background of symbolism for this play. For example, when Crampton, who cracks nuts with his jaws and rinses his mouth out with plain yellow soap, needs to have a tooth extracted, this incident seems like a prophesy of his impending castration as the paterfamilias of the Clandon household--but concluding that may be taking Freudian fetishism...
With the turning on of the lights at intermission, we snapped up our program and rifled to the section containing the short bios of the performers. Our eyes roaming over lists of soap opera and TV ad credits, we finally hit gold and knew that we had found what we were looking for. It was the actor who had played Mr. Angolino, the frantic restaurant owner from Three's Company...
Antithesis, or "Anti-thesis," is everything I do to avoid doing my thesis. My antithetical list includes, but is in no way limited to: watching "Spinal Tap" again, buying soap, shopping classes, revising my resume, running, writing long letters to people I am no longer friends with, watching "Spinal Tap" again, doing recommended reading for classes, revising my bibliography, writing papers for other classes and xeroxing articles I will never read...
...America is only afternoon television, then people will care, in a slack- jawed way, whether Bill was unfaithful to Hillary with Gennifer. It is the kind of question asked on soap operas and on Oprah and Geraldo and Donahue. When the program ends, the audience will mute a commercial and scratch itself, glance out the window and see that reality still looks lousy. It will turn back to the television and click through the channels to find another hour of pointless junk...