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...visa registration office. Later, while the Siberians exchanged hugs and kisses with family members through the heavy metal grate covering an embassy basement window, a young agent in a black leather jacket perched on a nearby railing, taking pictures of them. Said a U.S. diplomat: "They have a hunting license to go anywhere in the system...
...four wheels and flies? Even then, the joke seemed pretty lame, but an appealing new response has appeared in the form of the album Red All Over by the group Busload of Nuns, featuring the performances of Marc Lowenstein '85 and Andrea Burke '85. The record's somber album jacket is, you guessed it, black and white, but the slyly absurd title is just a harbinger of the album's unexpected jabs at presence and pretension. Red All Over, like a musical rendition of a common old joke, ends up commenting on the failure of reason in a crazy world...
...comic forms that range from the bon mot to the shaggy-dog story. The film is all very dislocating: the audience does not expect to see black comedy played out in bleached-white settings or to find the soul of an existential epigrammatist lurking under a rumpled bush jacket. It is also tough, smart and marvelously unpredictable...
...amazing and often galling confidence, the lot of the gifted youth who feels unchallenged by and superior to his environment. He flunked a grade-school music class because he refused to take the course seriously. His mother once picked him up after school and found her son's jacket bulging with the concealed score of a Verdi opera. "I learned two acts during math class," Jimmy calmly informed...
Nothing much happens. Charles' only friend Sam loses his job as a jacket salesman and moves in. His mother, alternately in a silver lame dress, bathtub, or asylum, has a bad habit of attempting suicide. Susan, the fresh-faced younger sister, "always appears to be happy and normal. She must know something," he muses. Reminders of the Sixties lie sprinkled about: Janis Joplin on the car radio, references to Woodstock--according to Susan, "Just a bunch of people walking around in the mud looking for a place to pee." But these bits of nostalgia are carefully controlled, contributing...