Word: subterranean
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Students are understandably fascinated by tunnel lore, and more than a few of them decide to explore the subterranean world for themselves. Tunnel supervisors say that three or four students are usually caught each year, although Andrew Culhane, night shift supervisor, adds that as many 25 people have been nabbed in a single year...
...Your Chem 5 exam is in five minutes, and you don't have time to race back to Harvard Square from the Science Center to buy a pen, a pencil or any sort of writing instrument. You are desperate. Your lab partner suggests the Science Center stockroom, a subterranean cornucopia of school supplies...
...Hell is other people," complains Garcin (David Sonnenberg), the male of the group. And he's right, because in the existential subterranean setting of Sartre the characters simply cannot escape the company of one another. There is just no exit to which they can run. Garcin, Inez (Lyra Barrera) and Estelle (Jacqueline Sloan) are imprisoned together, in a small and tastelessly furnished room, for eternity...
...opera. But in the midst of all the mechanics there are 2 1/2 performances that achieve some emotional depth. Michael Crawford commands the stage as the Phantom, bringing complete conviction to such fantasies as a midair descent on a chariot of gilded cherubs and a boating trip on a subterranean lake dotted with candelabra. As his alternately terrified and thrilled disciple, Sarah Brightman is more singer than actress but still manages to suggest a neurasthenic obsession with the Phantom. The half performance comes from erstwhile Ballet Dancer Steve Barton, who looks good and sings well as Christine's real-world...
...surreal landscape called Virgil, Texas. It also represents the first big-screen flowering of the decade's dominant hip sensibility. Like Letterman with his "Small-Town News" and "Stupid Pet Tricks," Byrne is fascinated by the seemingly banal. Like Lynch's Blue Velvet, True Stories rides the subterranean currents of bizarre behavior that bubble under Smalltown, U.S.A. "It's a strange world, isn't it?" the characters in Blue Velvet keep saying. Yes, Byrne would reply, strange and wondrous...