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...rock concerts or performance art. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a hot ticket for months, is the life story of a transsexual rock star, told in the form of an autobiographical nightclub act. De La Guarda's circus-like theater piece, Villa Villa, features performers who swoop and soar on cables above the audience (which stands during the entire 60-min. spectacle). "These shows are reinventing theatrical language," says David Binder, a De La Guarda co-producer, "for an audience that thought the theater had nothing to say to them...
...some people's design ambitions soar beyond this mundane, utilitarian conception. They venture into stimulating new territory by laying out their room for the purpose of maximizing carnal pleasure. "Love nests," "player's cribs," "pimp palaces"--there'll be no studying here...
...jail a poetry teacher named Lauren (Sonja Sohn, who can soar from a whisper to high-calorie emoting in the flick of a verb) encourages the inmates to examine the cycle of violence and put it into verse; they respond with pensive street scat like "I shot three m______f______s, and I don't know why." Well, it's a start. For Ray, it is the start of big things. He falls in love both with Lauren and with the furious folk art of slamming--a mix of hipster poetry contest and hip-hop riffing. Now Slam starts...
...chemical effect. Cheaper drugs can't be turned off so quickly. "It will cost more, but that's O.K.," says Gary Dunham, the pharmacologist who is sharing rounds with Ohman. If the woman gets in trouble with one of the cheaper drugs, he says, her health-care costs will soar. Dunham lectures again in the language of cost-based pharmacotherapy: "It's the most effective drug at the least societal cost...
...delivers one of the most skillfully faked bald-faced lies in American history, a lie delivered, in the words of his loyal friend of 30 years, Robert Reich, with "passionate intensity" and "stunning conviction" recalling "the great Method actors of a previous generation." Result? His polls soar. Disaster is averted. He wins...