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...with readings of passages of Italo Calvino’s book, Invisible Cities. Perhaps too obscurely poetic to be fully grasped or even enjoyed, the band’s bizarre music, nevertheless, had a calming, almost hypnotic quality, which sadly was periodically obliterated by intentionally jarring outbursts of radio static. There is no need to say that the band continuously kept its audience guessing for what would come next...
...stand-up comedians of the Comedy Studio and their modest audience form, as founder and emcee Rick Jenkins jokes, the only assembly gathered in an attic in Cambridge “not planning the overthrow of the government.” Instead, the comics are ousting the former static state of comedy and offering new and experimental material for the considerations of their small but sophisticated audience...
...real Tony Kushner is not the static figure of an hour’s public conversation; he is himself changing, constantly acting and being acted upon. The living, breathing Tony Kushner—a self-described “gay American Jewish Socialist”—wouldn’t fit into a magazine article...
...peak of construction grew by a floor a day. Kelly devotes some great kinetic prose to his labors: "Briody steadied his legs and back and torso and arms and clenched his jaw against the rattle of the pneumatic gun. His muscles were fluid one second with movement, static the next to drive the rivet home, a contracting and easing of his brawn that over the weeks had become as regular as breathing." Work stops only when some poor rivet punk loses his balance and free-falls to his death on the sidewalk below...
Rocking the stage in formal suits, ties, vests, (and one beanie) Interpol sleekly managed to attain the impossible: a calm vibe in a sparkling atmosphere. Basking in the shade of their backstage multicolor spotlights Paul Banks’ rich voice became a static shadow glued to center stage, Sam Fogarino’s brilliant percussion a shimmer of cymbals, and Carlos D.’s bass a rock of rhythm...