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...Square’s street performers—many of whom prefer the term “busker,” originally a British term for street entertainers—say the scene is a culture and community in itself, with a subtle hierarchy and staggering breadth of performance...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All The Square's A Stage | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...keeps it interesting," Mary Moore was saying. "He changes things depending on his talent. One time we had a Hungarian here who did a busker dance. All of a sudden there was a busker dance in the show. When we get a juggler, there is juggling in the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: The Play Plays On and On | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...great shots of the carnival. These will look swell with the scenes of the London busker and the Macy's Thanks giving Day Parade. Good entertainment value, good change of pace. Sean finished up before we got here, which is O.K. He kept asking questions about the script nobody could answer. He wanted to know why everybody was going to Nice. I said for the sun. (Joke) He said Cornelia got to go to all the nice places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Battle Diary | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...quid a week to sing with his band, and she said, "Make it seven." He did. She came from Middlesex, just outside London, where life as a child was, in her words, "clean but scruffy." Her father, a West Indian immigrant, earned part of his living as a busker outside London's music halls and pubs. Her mother, disowned by her parents for marrying a West Indian, saw to it that Cleo and her two brothers "were swamped in lessons"-dancing, piano and violin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cool Cleo | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...Watson, you are in it, portrayed at last as the oaken heart that you really are by Colin Blakely. I am impersonated by that busker of amiable distinction, Mr. Robert Stephens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Adventure of the Misplaced Pastiche | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

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