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Like last year's Blue Velvet, House of Games deals with a supposedly normal character who gets pulled into an undertow of evil and finds, to her surprise, that she enjoys living out the part of herself she's always repressed. Lindsay Crouse is Dr. Margaret Ford, a committed workaholic...
For Stella now took the minimalist obsession with fabrication (as distinct from handmaking) and used it to carry all that was maximal: sweeping gestures, textural scribbles, hot collisions of color, a romantic sense of barely sustained cohesion. But Stella's "new look" of spontaneity was itself a kind of theatrical...
The campus rules were more than stringent. Access of "outsiders" to the houses was limited, a xenophobic move by supposedly egalitarian Harvard if ever there was one. The obsession with proper Harvard identification was so complete that one student who ran out without her burser's card couldn't get...
Staging a play at the Adams House swimming pool is a clever idea, though the lighting there is so bad that it is difficult to see even the actors' facial expressions. The actors do get to jump in the pool occasionally and thrash about on innertubes and rubber rafts. Its...
Further evidence that Hite is on to something can be found in the nation's bookstores. A brief sampler of some of the titles that have lined the shelves in the past five years: Men Who Can't Love (Evans; 1987); How to Love a Difficult Man (St. Martin's...