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However, a species classification yesterday by experts ruined the possibility of a lovable "sea monster" legend being passed down to future generations and at the same time deflated the value of thousands of "Cecil blubber" souvenirs taken from the creature Sunday at its dry-dock home on a Scituate beach...
...play by Czech Dramatist Karel Čapek, it deals with a 342-year-old woman who calls herself Emilia Marty. She has not aged much physically, but she has seen, heard and had just about everything and everybody. Longevity has drained away all feeling and left only a beautiful monster of ice and ennui. "There is no joy in goodness, no joy in evil," she says. "When you know that, your soul dies within you." Nevertheless, she is still human enough to be terrified of death, and the opera observes her ruthlessly searching and seducing her way toward a document...
...have been disillusioned. Ours, rather, is disabused of belief in the ultimate importance of the forces behind the corporate state, freed in the very act of seeing the individual's potential for guiding his own thoughts and tastes. The promise of life is not false. Nor is technology a monster to be slayed. The dehumanized, single-minded movement of the corporate state toward efficiency and growth and progress is what must be got rid of and technology put in its place, that is, subordinated...
...boring. All three assume an acquaintance with hard drugs and are only formally connected with their heroic predecessors. More than surrealistic, gross visual explicitness washes each frame with a desperate finality. Where the cover of Felix the Cat shows Felix and his girlfriend cuddling, Honky Tonk depicts a burly monster wearing spiked knuckles and attempting to recover from an axe blow in the head, and that's just the beginning of the ooze. The imagery reaches beyond usual notions of drug-altered experience, to a more fundamental mistrust of people, institutions, and even the artifacts of day-to-day living...
...Unfortunately, much of the remainder of the comic is more self-indulgent mockery than readable satire. In the lead story, "An Okie from Waskogie," Sodmind Redneck is drinking with the boys when acid somehow falls into his glass of white lightning'. "The Return of Wong" is a Kong-like monster returning to defecate on New York City. The final story, "Pamela," traces a woman of fashion going to the beauty salon and being summarily eaten by a hair-dryer...