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Its spicy and sweet and crunchy and chewy, sometimes overseasoned or underbaked (but hardly ever over-proofed!
Just more, everywhere, all the time,affordably.
Where would we be without shoes?!
Ill tell you, he says with aJohnny Carsonsmile.
Wed be at home.
; Sinatra sings the ABCs.
He thensings like thisfor a not-short period of time.
When he finishes, he sniffs with dignity: Cancel me if you must.
The game hes playing is layered.
Ill tell you where I stand.
Inline.Tovote!For representatives who have my best interests at heart.
Another grin: And luckily they all do.
Or wanting to break things, at the same time as you want to repair them.
and yes, thats aSeinfeldpun.
And sometimes, you know, the gesamtkunst isnt werk…ing.
I wish all ofSad Boyswere as stupidly great as that joke.
My mind is a hellscape!
The contortion that pieces likeSad Boystry to pull off to avoid the above critique is:But IknowIm solipsistic!
Tatarsky is intensely, nerve-shreddingly aware.
Tatarskys clown is caught up in her own possibly eternal process (or damnation?)
I reach for my spear.
But I still want to be seen!…
Sad boy in a painting….
I turn in on myself.
But I still want to be seen!
is practically Tatarskys battle cry.
In moments like this one, it works: Her always-awareness softens she becomes more generously self-satirizing.
ButSad Boysspends very little time beyond the interior of Tatarskys head.
Again, the collection of references and potential ingredients is tantalizing.
I dont know, but it was enough to make me check right out.
The people who have the means to tell stories dont have urgent stories to tell.
Well, there it is, kids I guess we can all go home now.
Roughly 65 percent of students in New York City public schools are Black or Latine.
Roughly 80 percent of the students in the eight elite public high schools are white or Asian American.
The only admissions criteria is your test score.
Charlotte is in seventh grade / she wants to be an actress, Cramer sings, then pauses.
I mean she is an actress / shes just in seventh grade.
in a five-paragraph essay for her white teacher, by Monday.
Cramer isnt (to borrow a term) anelitemusician.
They describe themself as playing ukulele kinda good and the piano hardly at all.
/ I actually say those words!
He looks extremely bored).
But Divya needs a solution.
IsOthelloracist, yes or no?
Then they go for the hat trick.
When we could be reading any number of contemporary Black playwrights.
/ The story is really crazy / and the language is really pretty.
Words work so hard, give a shot to do so much, and often fail.
School Pictures, Amusements,andSad Boys in Harpy Landare at Playwrights Horizons through December 3.
