If these reunited bands meant something to you in an earlier time, perhaps you’re feeling the dirty power of money, or the lameness of aging.
Featuring a shadowy, half-coherent narrative involving a nefarious plot by Bill Gates to acquire jewels from the princess of Monaco, it asks its audiences to travel into the depths of Chinatown, into the back room of a restaurant in Little Italy and even onto the Brooklyn Bridge. Along the way the gaggle of audience members (no more than 10 a show) must decipher puzzles and read crude maps to figure out the windy route.
I realized that you have to play off the specificity of a locale in order to arrive at something universal.
When in 2003 Chirac told the Eastern Europeans who backed Bush and Blair on Iraq that they had "missed an opportunity to shut up," his blunt talk upset a lot of people and did little for France’s popularity. But in all of this, he has been proved right.
Car bombings and other violence now kill an average of 100 people a day. Two out of three Iraqis have no regular access to clean water.
"It’s not an easy decision for a woman to give up her monthly menses," said Ronny Gal, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. But if the new pill, called Lybrel, is approved, Mr. Gal predicts an onslaught of advertising meant to persuade women to do just that.
I know I am back in the States because at the hotel breakfasts they are all talking about money.
A urology resident finally managed to get a catheter into the bladder. Urine gushed out -- nearly half a gallon of it. A full bladder normally holds only a quarter of that. The urology resident looked at the intern: "I guess now we know why his kidneys weren’t working."
"Tom doesn’t get spooked."
"I have reached the point where I get phantom vibrations, even when I’m not carrying the thing," he said. "That sure doesn’t sound too healthy, does it?"
"I quit smoking 28 years ago," she said, "and that was easier than being without my BlackBerry."
Surely, this is the future of music players: instant access to any song, any album, whenever and wherever you’re in the mood.
"It was the worst case of nouveau riche you can possibly imagine."
... the stated yearning to stay abreast of things may mask more visceral and powerful needs ... "It’s idiotic in terms of substance. ... But it’s vital in terms of meaning."
