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...Playing Georgia at Georgia in front of 7000 fans was just a huge thrill," Rueb says. "It was just great. That's the kind of stuff you'll never forget...
Sanders rose from utter obscurity to relative fame when he joined John Coltrane's group in 1965 and began to scandalize and thrill audiences with his cataclysmic solos whose language was not melody but pure sound. Recordings from this period reveal a relentlessly experimental musician who can create fascinating textures with a seemingly infinite array of barks, yelps, squeals, buzzes, gurgles, and passionate cries. The grandiose scale of Coltrane's musical vision inspired Sanders to try and reach transcendence as he improvised for twenty or thirty minutes on compositions with names like "Peace on Earth" and "Love...
Well, Vegas has already done that for Eisner. The town is Disneyfied in two important ways. One is that its shows have the Good-Lord-what-next? suspense of a Disney World thrill ride. Or as Tom Bruny, the MGM Grand's director of advertising, explains the challenge of creating EFX: "We knew we had to produce a 'gee whiz' show, but we didn't want it to be just a 'gee whiz' show...
...Harvard English department, struggle with a psychotic roommate and fail in the pursuit of Pamela, an enigmatic novelist, but none of these things make the leap from anecdote to art. The monologue often relies on mere local reference to keep the audience interested. We get a sort of thrill from hearing places and people we know mentioned on stage. When Marler does strive for larger meaning, he usually achieves only pretension--as with the title, which has no more concrete meaning after one has seen the play than before...
...hostess mentioned the enticing prospect of white peach margaritas. I couldn't resist. I had to play the game once more. I asked for a pitcher of said dreamy substance. "You all have ID, right?" she sighed boredly. "Yep," we said. And that was it. Soon, with that thrill that only the non-legal know, we too were alcoholically-enabled. Sorry, elementary school, you lost this...