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...Vadis" brand septanote (seven day) wonder is a black vinyl number that she whips out at any opportunity-whether jotting election battle plans or setting a civilian lunch date. "Quo Vadis" claims a pedigree dating back to 1954 and sports the suspect warning that "Quo Vadis diaries are addictive...
Most students, like Lamelle, cultivate a slavish dependence on their neatly parceled timetables-whether Vinyl metal spirals from the bargain bin at CVS or leather-bound volumes printed in acid-free ink and stored in the glass cases at Bob Slate's. Worshipped like prayer books and handled like the latest edition of Playboy to hit the men's locker room, complex planners are as common among students as red books in Mao's China...
...friend agrees. "Everything has been done, and everything has been stood for, everything has been fought over, and now it's basically like there is no more debate," says Alexandra, whose prim black cocktail dress and silver-buckled black vinyl corset (worn on the outside) make her a techno-goth--for the day at least. She is passionately apathetic, as if to spite her father, who demonstrated against the war from the City College of New York to Berkeley and who by his own count was arrested "about 11 times." But isn't there still poverty and inequity...
...answer, surprisingly, is both. Although the zany prologue begins the production on a hysterical note, that wonderful craziness begins to wither away early into the actual play. Nearly everyone dons period costumes after the prologue, which makes Kate's t-shirt and jeans and Petruchio's black vinyl pants look out of place rather than creative. The lighting, while fine for some moments, misses its mark most of the time, and hides from the audience some of the most gifted and expressive actors this school has to offer. The set is adequate, but nothing special...
NUMBER OF VINYL LPs SOLD 1994 625,000 1995 794,000 1996 1,100,000 1997 (through 6/29...