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...Cinematically, director Stanley Kwan is a sober man and his film is imbued with the somber shades of romantic doom. He favors subdued over sensational. Handong and Lan Yu's one-night stand, for example, never gets to a state of hormonal frenzy: Kwan finds his thrill in the tender tremblings of first love. Production designer William Chang creates moody, claustrophobic interiors to convey the relationship's confining, emotionally charged intensity...
...primary drawback of the show, however, derives from the abstract stylization of the production—a stylization that does not always agree with the somber tone of the play. To be fair, some of the abstraction works well: the aforementioned background wall is effective and reminds one of a similar style of setting discussed in the stage directions for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The tilting planes of the two-tiered stage also jar the audience in a fashion aptly representative of the distorted dreams of the Prozorovs...
Across the street in the parking lot of Harvard’s business school, the atmosphere at the University of Pennsylvania tailgates was more somber. But even hours after the game, some faithful remained beside their grills, eating leftovers and second-guessing the game...
Unfortunately, the sorry trend of commercial exploitation of Sept. 11 does not end with the car manufacturers. AT&T now runs a somber advertisement where 20-odd pale blue place names flash up on a white screen, starting with the sites of the three plane crashes and ending up around the world. The slogan “the power to unite is greater than the power to divide” fades away into the AT&T logo. Consumers are clearly supposed to heed the implied message—because Sept. 11 demonstrated the importance of tolerance and multi-culturalism, everyone...
Indeed, the cancellation of the “Debauchery” dance has ushered in a somber tone on campus. Male students have taken to lifting cars to release their pent-up tension. Contrary to previous complaints, students are now flocking to Eliot House for their daily cold shower. The Lampoon is so distraught, they have been unable to laugh at even their own pathetic excuses for jokes. Academic performance has taken a nose-dive as well; not one Computer Science 121: “Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation” problem set made deadline this week...