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To see The Sacrifice after a junk-food diet of Hollywood movies is like ducking out of a carnival to visit a medieval crypt. You are pulled out of time and into a sacred stillness. The images, handsomely sculpted, address themes of life and death and life after death. Gods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: End-of-the- World Blues the Sacrifice | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Not every letter in The Game is capitalized, however. That would sink The Game to the level of some cheap carnival sideshow (Come see THE GAME! Don't miss THE AMAZING CRIMSON!!!).

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: The Poetry of The Game | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

Inside Memorial Hall, the carnival atmosphere had a distinctly international flavor. The program included performances by Indian and Chinese dancers, folk music from around the world and an African storyteller.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Children Attend Party | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

At night the boat stopped in Pakkoku. Tourist Burma had told us we had to sleep on board, but that turned out to be another official lie. We guessed that since Pakkoku wasn't on any of our maps, it must be a tiny village; it turned out to be...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Harvard Traveler's Seven Burmese Days | 7/29/1986 | See Source »

From the moment Moore and Ronis met nearly four years ago, while bit players in the freshman show, Thurber Carnival, they initiated the distinctive language they still share--a mixture of funny accents and idioms that comprises a gallery of imaginary people, many of them women.

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: A Tale of Two Actors | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

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