Word: neon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...returning Class of 1957, it would be easy to miss Charlie’s Kitchen. Hidden among high-end shoe stores, overpriced novelty shops, and expensive restaurants, its neon sign advertising its famous “Double Cheeseburger” struggles to compete with established chains like Uno’s or Legal Sea Foods. But step inside and you are instantly transported back to 1953, the last time Charlie’s Kitchen changed its menu...
...1980s. Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 directs William Congreve’s most famous play, going up in the Loeb Mainstage on April 27 and playing during Arts First weekend. But it won’t be your standard classical fare: using Reagan-era music, neon lights, and loads of paint, Birnbaum’s vision attempts to give an old story new life. A dark comedy, the story follows the rakish “Mr. Mirabell” (J. Jack Cutmore-Scott ’10) as he trys to balance love, lust and money. He desires...
...Birnbaum’s inclusion of modern elements like rock songs, rollerblades, and neon lights creates a frivolous, fun atmosphere in excellent keeping with the themes of “The Way of the World.” However, other moments, like a fairly long, sexually-charged dance number which seemed to be included because someone thought the play had gone too long without anything sexy happening, are less seamless and more puzzling...
...time and who try hard to avoid capture, and mass killers like Cho. But the central role of narcissism plainly connects them. Only a narcissist could decide that his alienation should be underlined in the blood of strangers. The flamboyant nature of these crimes is like a neon sign pointing to the truth. Charles Whitman playing God in his Texas clock tower, James Huberty spraying lead in a California restaurant, Harris and Klebold in their theatrical trench coats--they're all stars in the cinema of their self-absorbed minds...
...when they went bowling last Thursday. Jeff Mangum—the lead singer of now-defunct indie pop legends Neutral Milk Hotel—decided to break his five-year hiatus from performing in public to whip out his guitar for the awestruck WHRBies, transporting them out of the neon glare of Lanes and Games into Holland, 1945…A certain Fly member decided to take his post-spring break revelry to a whole new level this weekend when he entered a room in Eliot that was not his own. Instead of exiting gracefully, he did the next best...