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Punch and Judy Get Divorced has the potential to become very popular; like most good musicals, it has songs that are catchy without being trite, and a few themes that hit home. Satire can be defined as the art of making people laugh while dabbling in touchy subjects, and everyone laughs at this musical. But after they stop laughing, the married people in the audience mumble about how true to life the squabbling is; never-married people vow that their marriages will never be like that. No matter which category you fall into, Punch and Judy Ger Divorced...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: A Very Odd 'Punch and Judy' | 10/31/1996 | See Source »

...Socialist and Libertarian, is something that should not have been overlooked in planning HYPE, which claimed to be a non-partisan rally. The partisanship which was evident by negligible anyhow. Politics is about strong opinions, and it is played out through parties. To ignore this reality and supply trite blather about voting obligations--rather than strong campaign endorsements and policy contestations--will not encourage anyone to vote...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Successful HYPE Played it Safe | 9/25/1996 | See Source »

...counter? In "Walking and Talking," writer-director Nicole Holofcener explores with intelligence and refreshing humor the challenges faced by two best friends on the cusp of settling into careers and set lifestyles. With honest, intimate performances and a fine supporting cast, the film simply clicks, without becoming sentimental or trite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Run (Don't Walk) to This Film | 8/13/1996 | See Source »

...clinical, stalely academic categorization as the term "gender" to such a luminous, sensually affecting, eerie work is to limit its importance. With "The Veiling" as with "The Hall of Whispers," it becomes clear that the genius in Viola's works are in his vision, not his voice. Even the trite titles of the installations show that his strength is less in his verbal "messages" than in his manipulation of tactile experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bill Viola's Vision Illuminates at ICA | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

...addition to their many other accomplishments, the Nazis continue to exert a woeful hold on the Western imagination, as anyone who has attended many postwar productions of opera or Shakespeare can attest. The swastika has become a trite symbol of evil; foot soldiers in dramas tend to goose-step. Things are going a little too far, though, when synchronized swimming--also known as water ballet--fixes on death camps as a motif for aquatic drama. Such was the case with the French Olympic team, which, in preparing its effort for Atlanta this summer, crafted a routine featuring swimmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: SUNK SO LOW | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

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