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...Malcolm Wallop...
...Beads and Mirrors," the very short original play by Rosalie O'Brien playing in * he very small Winthrop Junior Common Room, packs more wallop than most larger Harvard shows can manage. And though technically and logistically encumbered, it conveys an intelligence and maturity that is too often bypassed for cheap theatricality...
...line, and a short song text whose point is a one-line chorus: then it's on to the next pop song, where they repeat the process. The paradox, if you want to call it that, is that their total simplicity of means ends up with such an emotional wallop: one tune and one line from this record can take over your whole day, if you're lucky. what remember of "Time Expired," for example, consists of the chorus--"Time expired, violation/It's a fucked-up situation"--and the throbbing five-chord riff that comes before and after...
...felt that this label was going to be all sorts of stuff and was going to give everyone a power-packed wallop every time they put it on their turntable," he says...
...Roussel and the Comte de Lautreamont. On the other hand, his drawing is almost entirely derived from comic strips. Both confessional and obscure (why else would the museum have served up no fewer than 17 catalog essays to explicate it?), his work can nevertheless pack a flailing, provincial-surreal wallop -- now and then...