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...wishes that she hadn't kept going. Set in New York's Little Italy in the years following World War II, "Household Saints" is an exploration of the lives of three generations of Italian-American women that starts off rich in detail and comedy, and ends in an inexplicable twist of surrealist abandon...
...race to keep up does get tiresome towards the latter half of the second act. Fortunately however, Levin, keen to an audience's limited capacity to watch and process a bullet-paced thriller, allows for extensive monologues in which characters, like members of a Greek chorus, meticulously recall events twist for twist...
...fiddles with her knitting needles and organizes and reorganizes liquor decanters as if these were the international signs for being nervous. Her lack of subtlety impairs her delivery as she swallows most of her lines, confusing the scenes that she is in. When Mrs. Bruhl does meet her "plot twist", the audience is more relieved than shocked...
...zestful proficiency; they become self-improvement junkies while the merchants get rich. VR can also be a socializing medium, even of the zap-you're-dead! variety. TV, video games and videocassettes keep folks hermited away; VR gets them out of the house with a new gimmick -- a twist on the lures that '50s moviemakers, faced with the challenge of TV, offered film audiences with Cinerama's roller-coaster ride, 3-D's spears and paddleball, William Castle's Tingler showmanship...
...Locations have cigarette machines to cater to their clientele," said Levine. "What you're going to do by banning the machines is twist their arms and force them to sell over the counter...