Word: brigadoon
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...warp when contemporary children inhabit a bygone era, bunking in rustic cabins along unspoiled lakeshores, learning ancient arts like archery and canoeing, and living by the light of the sun, the moon and the fireflies. But recently, an invader from the modern world has begun to infiltrate that bucolic Brigadoon. Its name: e-mail...
...different. Maybe a strong Steve Forbes showing in Iowa persuades him to spend millions on TV ads in New Hampshire, weakening Bush. Maybe a big Gore win disheartens Bill Bradley supporters in New Hampshire. The likely result, though, is that Iowa will once again prove to be the Brigadoon of American politics, disappearing into the mists, never to be heard from until the next leap year dawns...
...deja vu that so easily comes with a visit to Inman Square; imagine a night of multiple drinks and multiple parties at friends' apartments east of Harvard Square. Suddenly, a soft drink or snack becomes a necessity. It was found somewhere, but the memory fails. Inman is that Brigadoon...
This Pleasantville, this Bedford Falls, this Brigadoon, this Springfield, you see, is really Stepford--a place so sanitized there are no toilets or double beds, a people so insular they have never known what it's like to feel unprogrammed joy or lust or rage or bravery or intellectual adventure. When they finally open themselves to these emotions (by gazing at a Picasso or hearing Buddy Holly or spending the evening with a naughty girl from the '90s), the people of Pleasantville literally blush into color. They wear their passion on their shamed, fervent faces, on their clothes, like...
...reworking first-not just character reassessment, but pruning in the overlong first act and fleshing out of the second. Even then, with a female trio delivering such lines as "The pen on the pillow of sperm/ The penis stretched out for Venus," it's doubtful that Ceiling/Sky will replace Brigadoon anytime soon...