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...decor is a phantasmagoric wave of colors straight out of Sonny and Crockett's backyard. There are the hot-pink napkins placed on the nearly fluorescent green tables, and the random rainbow-colored paintings hanging on the dramatically white walls. It's almost as though they were trying to simulate how Pepto-Bismol works inside one's stomach. The whole mess is just too damn loud. But then again, the spicy, fruity food actually blends in quite nicely with this decor...
...between musical sounds and noises. I . . . fought for noises." So defined, Cage found "music" everywhere: in the kitchen, in technology (HPSCHD, a seminal electronic collaboration with composer Lejaren Hiller), in numerology and, most important, in the 3,000-year-old Chinese Book of Changes called the I Ching, whose random, coin-tossed hexagrams formed the basis of the aleatoric, or chance, music he so loved...
...most viewers were truly slaves to imitation of TV, rather than committing acts of random violence, they probably would subscribe to the sentimental altruism and simpleminded moralism of most TV "good guys...
...Washington State, for example, voters must submit their petitions for absentee ballots for every separate election, be it primary or final, or even the random school levies that occur in January. Since such petitions are not accepted for more than a certain window ahead of time, one can't simply mail every card at the beginning of the year. And while senior citizens and disabled Americans may now register as permanent absentees in many states, there is no recognition of such a common absence as college...
...Sophistry, an almost random set of fashionably themed vignettes by Jonathan Marc Sherman, the teacher and student re-enact their encounter in parallel recollections. Rapp rampages through both, first as a bratty seducer who hides doubts about his sexuality by swiveling his hips, shaking a finger cockily in the professor's face, tearing off his own clothes and collapsing in puppyish self-pity, then as a mute but furious victim. His vengeance gives Pendleton a career moment too. Reduced to a job as Santa, he stands disheveled, muttering the words of one Christmas carol while hearing the tune of another...