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Wojewodski's successor, Irene Lewis, demonstrates her own facility for nurturing new work in Escape from Happiness, a high-energy absurdist comedy about a nutty blue-collar family entangled with drug dealing, pornography, police corruption and an overabundance of soup. The play is at Center Stage through March 14, then moves on to Yale, which is co-producing the show...
...sees it at full stretch in The Soup, with its tremendous image of a working-class Earth Mother, as old as the tenant of a limestone cave but as new as the Republic, gorging herself from the steaming pot, while her infant sucks at her breast -- a continuum of blind appetite, expressed in rhythmical line. Here, the long Rococo tradition in French art of painting the lower classes as nifty milkmaids or idealized swains gets its coup de grace. Not all of Daumier's drawings have the fierceness of this one (how could any artist sustain it?), but they...
Grab some extra kleenex, aspirin and chicken soup on your way to tonight's game at Briggs against Brown. The Harvard women's basketball team isn't feeling too well...
...basic rules of chemistry are any guide, life should not exist. Scientists showed in the 1950s that shooting an electric spark through a soup of chemicals -- thus simulating lightning strikes on the primordial planet earth -- could produce simple organic compounds. But complex, self-reproducing chemicals like dna? They shouldn't have arisen in a trillion years. At an even deeper level, the second law of thermodynamics dictates that the universe should inexorably move toward disorganization. Cups of tea always cool off; they never spontaneously get hotter. Iron rusts, but rust never turns into iron...
...upward course for years and then crash 500 points in a single day. A species can survive for millions of years and then abruptly die out -- or conversely, evolve almost all at once into something entirely new. And self-reproducing organisms can somehow arise, against all odds, from a soup of simple organic chemicals...