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A.L.I.E.E.N. by Lewis Trondheim is the strangest of the group. Presented as a reprint of a comic book from another planet, it includes (minimal) dialogue in some untranslatable language. Anyone familiar with the bizarre works of Jim Woodring, who specializes in creating mute, inexplicable worlds of beauty and danger, will immediately see kinship between the two authors. The book looks, at arm's length, like something for kids, with cute characters akin to Pokemon, interacting in a colorful environment. But a closer read reveals a cruel world of domination and subjugation that often involves weird forms of violence...
...Josh Randall), while effective, kept the audience from looking at anything but the first few feet of stage. Also, the rhythmic pacing became somewhat lulling after a time and made the scene a bit hard to follow. “Rockaby” was arguably the strangest and most disturbing—but because of this, also the strongest—of the pieces. A woman (Brown) rocked back and forth in a rocking chair as a disembodied voice recited a repeating and vaguely sing-songish description of the action of coming upstairs, sitting in a rocking chair, and looking...
...seventh and eighth place. This is forward progress for our ski team.” Harvard’s total of 292 points beat out scores from St. Michaels and Bowdoin, but it wasn’t easy—Friday’s action featured some of the strangest weather of the season. “We had a lot of wind, some very high wind, very near us,” Graves said. “A 20-degree temperature drop, rain, snow, sleet...the weather conditions particularly during the women’s cross country race were...
...from the original script is having the characters fight with knives and fists. Choreographed by Rod Kinter, this change gives the fight scenes a kinetic brutality that sword fights lack. There is less immediate logic behind the dance sequence at the Capulets’ party, which is easily the strangest sequence in the play. It is hard to tell whether the director is to be commended or condemned for having the characters “vogue” to classical music and line-dance to Usher. However, choreographed by Doug Elkins, the sequence is undeniably and surrealistically entertaining...
Perhaps the strangest part of the video is its absurd abstraction of the titular call-out for immolation. Lots and lots of people put their cigarette lighters up to show support for Kim’s flaunting of the judicial system, but there are also an alarming number of shots of people shooting flame-throwers. In my kind of Li’l Kim video, that would be a sexual metaphor. Here, it’s just silly. You’re silly, Li’l Kim! Go to jail! Do not pass go! Do make sexier videos...