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...moment the circle of hell they have been assigned. The cramped and airless space within is subdivided into 32 cubicles doled out to at least 100 men. The stink of sweat, unwashed clothing, old shoes and garbage suffuses the narrow makeshift corridors. Cooking noises mingle with the gurgle of kitchen-side urinals. On tiny TV sets, a few men watch home videos of kin and country long left behind, for some as much as a decade ago. Others stare at the distant passion of porn tapes smuggled in from the old homeland. Each night the sounds of aching and loneliness...
However, moving from mellow acoustic ramblings into ingenious electronic sound collage, Beck demanded everyone's undivided attention with Odelay. Collaborating with the Dust Brothers-whose everything-but-the-kitchen-sink production methods had already revolutionized the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique--Beck crafted an album that sounded like it came from somewhere between Memphis, Manhattan and Mars. The country rambler was still here, but now he was hobnobbing with bubbling psychedelic guitars, booming hip-hop tracks and distorted space-age bleeps. Splashed through with enough classic soul samples to put Stax Records back in business, Odelay was a manifesto...
...plan, though, is that it will have a devastating effect on housing for upperclass students. Displaced from North Campus, upperclass students will be forced to move off campus (imagine the effect on apartment prices) or to West Campus. But West Campus, with its paucity of study and kitchen facilities and predominantly double-occupancy rooms, does not appeal to upperclass students. West was constructed, in fact, to be a first-year community...
...shooting her husband. Lenny bears thefull brunt of their grandfather's terminalillness. Lenny is not a part one can exactly playwith grace, but Jen Ceballos '01 plays herperfectly to every inch of fatigue andbedraggled-ness. The awkward, earnest way Lennytries to light her own birthday candles alone inher kitchen opens the play on a perfect note, andshowcases Ceballos' expertise with Lenny'sflighty, loud and endearing character. Lenny'salternately bossy and utterly helpless momentspush the characters to the hysterical moments thatgive this play its funny moments. Ceballos' actingeventually convinces the audience that Lenny isnot a bitter martyr but a loving sister...
...theMaGrath household is brilliant. The stage isfilled with infinite, touching details--ahalf-empty bottle of diswashing liquid on acluttered counter top, cheap curtains, Coke in therefrigerator, flowered wallpaper--which appeal notonly to the domestic nostalgia of an itinerantcollege student, but to anyone who has ever spenttime in a home kitchen. That the set has runningwater is in itself a technical triumph--a touch,however, that was not flaunted, but put in placeto avoid distraction. Afternoon turned into duskinto night into dawn with subtle but cruciallighting and sound effects. The talent andimagination of the people behind the scenes--theset designers...