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...This is Spoon River Anthology meets Saturday Night Live, an anachronistic blend of reckless humor and ironic pathos that goes down easiest when it's not taking itself too seriously. Unfortunately, they're only half-kidding when they promise to "warm the cockles of your heart." Following a fast-paced first act, the second half becomes weighed down in soul-searching soliloquies, a last try at serious reflection that comes too late in the show. Otherwise Greater Tuna's frank attitude that life is dull only if you think about it serves up raucous relief from postmodern boredom...
...soon after, our parents separated. They hung in there to protect us until we were old enough. But I don't think they were aware of how acutely we were aware of their unhappiness -- not violence, just a pervading unhappiness you could cut with a fork or a spoon at dinner every night. For years I thought the word "divorce" was the ugliest in the English language. Sound traveled from bedroom to bedroom, and the word came seeping through the heating ducts. My sisters and I would stay up at night, listening to our parents argue, hiding from that word...
Bosses increasingly frown on employees who smell of liquor after lunch, and aggressive yuppies, some of whom have turned to the coke spoon instead of the bottle, fear that booze will slow them down. "You can't run on the fast track with demon rum eating at your stamina," says Sam Wolfe, a recent University of North Carolina law school graduate. "I can't remember a single business meeting in a long time where anybody's had a drink," says Warner LeRoy, owner of New York City's Maxwell's Plum. When someone orders a stiff one, "a mental trigger...
...yogurt was on my spoon. I saw it in a flash. The whole experience. Natural, whole-milk...
...Radcliffe Women. To mention these unexplainable omissions would detract from the point that Dr. S. Coutner insulted all Black students and all Harvard students by hosting this exclusive event. Every student on this campus has to wonder how the spending of what must have been thousands of dollars to spoon feed steaks, rolls and fruit cocktails to primarily Boston residents and Harvard deans serves, in any way to improve race relations on this campus. Imprisoned behind closed doors, how can Mr. Hooks help educate the Harvard undergraduate who just last week at a local bar loudly exclaimed that he "hates...