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Hair-dyeing is more than an experiment in new-found freedom, though. Many people think it adds color (punintended) to their daily lives. Just imagine how many more wardrobe combinations a head of yellow hair allows: Now the green sweater and the orange pants will not clash because the vivid yellow distributes the outfit across the color spectrum more evenly. Sure...
Gail Wittwer's set creates a vivid sense of the Kowalski's home with minimal fuss. On side of the stage supports a grainy two-story photograph of a typical French Quarter house, which contains the entrance to the Kowalski's apartment, as well as the neighbors' window to which Stanley offers his infamous anguished prayer, "Stella!" The other is devoted to the apartment, accurately sketched through concise set decoration and attention to period accessories. Heidi Curran's costumes (notably Blanche's, from a chic Brattle Street boutique) further locate the piece in time and place...
...isolationists are prepared to relegate the Holocaust to the category of historical curiosity and condemn all use of analogy as misguided and dangerous to the power of the Holocaust itself. Yet they themselves sap the Holocaust of meaning by making it inapplicable to modern problems. The vivid images of evil and the world's deafening silence that this tragedy conjures up are rendered irrelevant when it singularity is emphasized above all else...
...best piece in the show, both horribly vivid and weirdly distanced, is the room-size Carousel, 1988. Four motor-driven arms swing on a pivot. From each hangs what appears to be the flayed carcass of a deer or a wolf. (They are, in fact, hard plastic-foam molds.) These casually suspended mock bodies are covered in graphite paint, and they drag on the floor, producing an unremittingly irksome scraping noise and leaving a silvery circular trail behind them, round and round. You don't feel empathy with the dead animals--the molds are too blank to evoke much more...
...have to confess that over spring break I purchased a cheesy tourist t-shirt in the Cayman Islands. It depicts a glaring imitation of a beer bottle label in vivid yellow, green and red. Robert J. Levy '95 informs me that the next step is to "cut off the sleeves and have a buff tank-top for summer." Is this the next wave...