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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Lear last winter. The town officials enter the stage almost exclusively via trapdoors, and leave the same way, jumping and holding their noses as if plunging into a Gehennan sewer. In a lengthy scene of bribetaking, they materialize one at a time before Khlestakov from pits in the candle-lit stage like, apparitions from his own unconscious...
Only once does the comic energy flag and seriousness take over: a series of afflicted towns-people visits Khlestakov, and on a dimly lit stage two women plead for his assistance in tedious, unexpectedly serious tones. It seems like a screwed-up bit of pacing. But then a macabre, unforgettable vision appears: a group of eerie, frazzled black scarecrows in a Brownian movement behind the transparent plastic sheet that forms the stage's rear boundary, staring at Khlestakov like a second, ghostly audience. In his impenetrable complacency, he can ignore them with a wave of his hand...
Hitler's eyes lit up. It was like the party rallies, the football games, where there are no questions, no complications, only heroes and martyrs, and great, righteous causes. The crowd was following him devoutly now, all the way down Mass Ave to the police station, where Hitler was booked and fingerprinted with his technicians...
...Seven Concentrations Class of '82 Class of '83 1. Economics 177 Economics 188 2. Biology 142 Biology 125 3. Government 122 Government 119 4. History 115 History 102 5. English 98 Psych. & Soc. Rel. 98 6. Psych. & Soc. Rel. 94 English 93 7. Soc. Stud. 60 Hist. & Lit...
...chance universe, where the evil and the unexpected? perhaps they were the same thing to him ? could suddenly crowd in upon one, where everyone knew he was guilty of something, if not necessarily what he was being punished for. It is a measure of his achievement that he lit erally made light of these dark feelings, miraculously transforming them into deft and graceful popular art that permitted the world to laugh, however nervously, at the demons that pursue every feeling man and woman...