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...laid-back. Programmed within an inch of its life, is more like it. The choreography, the elaborate video presentations, even Madonna's patter - there's almost no sense any more of an artist interacting spontaneously with the audience. Even the way the concert ends - her big hit "Hung Up," blackout, lights go up, goodbye! Not even an encore. Sure, encores have gotten to be as programmed as anything else, but at least there was the illusion of the artist repaying the audience for its spontaneous enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Madonna Still Rock? | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Pink is the new blackout...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SCOPED! | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...Eleganza inculcates the next generation with the notion that people will like them if they dress like they’re going clubbing in Berlin. Truth be told, we’ve never even bothered to see the show. Schonberger almost went sophomore year, but instead he got extremely blackout, got kicked out of the Busta Rhymes concert for being belligerent, and then attempted to enter the Business School to see another fictional concert that he had invented in his mind. But honestly, do we really need to see it? Do you really need to masturbate into a condom...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: ‘An Orgy of Chachery. . .’ | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...Every day, you get to open up a new window and have a little piece of chocolate, which is vaguely satisfying but mostly it just tickles your pickle for more chocolate. Sometimes you just lose it and eat like 5 pieces of chocolate at once, and then get so blackout that you have to skip a few days to let the dust settle. But needless to say, every silver lining has a dark, foreboding cloud around it. When you arrive at these Senior Bar events, you can never forget for a moment where you are. Just before the bar opens...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: BELL LAP: Reflections on Seniority | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...learn how to protect themselves when those institutions can't. Since 1993, the federal government's Community Emergency Response Team program has trained civilians to be auxiliary first responders - a formalized, more effective version of the Manhattan businessmen who loosened their ties and directed traffic during the 2003 blackout. The program is now available in more than 2000 jurisdictions. "If the people in Louisiana had been better educated," says RAND consultant Glenn Melnick, "the loss of property would have been the same, but we would have lost a lot fewer lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Disaster-Ready Are We? | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

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