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...admit it: Despite all warnings, without even realizing the classic signs of the nasty binary bugs we call computer viruses, I opened an attachment to an e-mail message that came unexpectedly and without text. My computer bleeped at me and a deranged ladybug appeared to announce: "You are infected with MTX.gen...
...like a man torturing an elevator button. And, boy, could he paint a wicked rhetorical picture. A particular favorite popped up at an energy-policy speech in Saginaw, Mich. Like most of his speeches important enough for a TelePrompTer, his emphasis track was unhooked from the actual text. Suddenly, a throwaway line got too much fancy sauce, making him sound as if he were declaring armistice at the end of a science-fiction movie: "The human being and the fish can coexist peacefully...
Nearly every work of art in the exhibit has a little didactic text from curator or artist or both hung up alongside it. Each of these is essentially the same, telling us how the piece contributes to the understanding of the individual enmeshed in the destructive forces of a materialist, male society. What really makes this annoying is that the Lois Foster Exhibition is ostensibly an even-handed survey of Boston-area art. In fact, it's a feminist art show-both the curators and all the artists were women and all these earnest bits of text ran along gender...
Augustine and Walsh attack an inconsistent text with ambition and energy. It is rare to see a musical that is smart, but the direction and choreography of this production make it just that. The use of swings in the Coney Island scene provide a visual metaphor for the suburban front-porch-swing respectability for which Charity longs, and the choreography of a dance scene in which the women shake their breasts and the men perform pelvic thrusts, and then switch roles, provides a welcome gender-bender in a musical which at times seems dated. Subtle twists like these, along with...
...Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew as it is an homage to it. Director Julia Jarcho '03 uses The Taming of the Shrew as a point of departure in a fast-paced exploration of the collective drives and desires in our sex-charged modern culture. Stripping the text to the barest of its essentials (four performers and a running time of under an hour), Jarcho built upon the loose structural foundation by incorporating erotic readings from and about Pauline Reage's 1965 The Story of O to highlight themes of submission and domination within the play's power...