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...Adams Pool Theater, buck traced the exploits of a tragically well-hung post-emancipation sharecropper through his graphically depicted tricks with the wives of the white folks in his county. While the actors may have been doin’ it like it was their job by the time the curtain went up, getting it on under the watchful gaze of a room full of strangers was a new experience to most of them. Stephen N. Smith ’02 admits to having terrible bouts of stage fright before entering the limelight for his starring role in buck...
...that the curtain has fallen on Titus’ and buck’s theatrical runs, Harvard’s Puritans can breathe a sigh of relief. For the rest of us, it’s back to the video store...
...Reading "Stripburek" gives the impression that the Iron Curtain resulted in a kind of comix Galapagos where the avant-garde, poetical and parable possibilities of comix evolved in unexploited splendor. Danijel Zezelj's "Petrified Tree" uses high-contrast, slashing brushwork to interpret a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Lucie Markvartova's "Switch On-Off" builds a story out of all the buttons a finger must push throughout the day. Many pieces are like Wostok and Grabowski's fantastical "Daddy Where Are You," about a little girl who follows Daddy's beard through all manner of obstacles only to find...
...little dog Toto takes the curtain in his teeth, tugs it aside and gives the world a glimpse of the Wizard of Oz. The wizard in this case turns out to be a pretty seedy character. To claim supernatural powers and then be caught in sordid acts--sexually abusing children or, even worse, shielding the abusers--is not only a moral problem. It is a near fatal professional error. I wonder if the hierarchy knows how gravely the Roman Catholic Church, especially the American church, has been wounded. There's massive internal bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility...
...ambiguity of the relationships or harm their possibilities as metaphors. One remarkable strip in the new collection deconstructs the formula as vaudeville. Krazy crosses the stage. A brick flies across the stage. Ignatz crosses the stage. Ignatz in Officer Pupp's clutches crosses back over the stage. Close curtain...