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...know that I’m always right” comes very close to being affecting. And “Don’t Get It Twisted,” the self-identifying “most craziest shit ever,” sounds, for no discernible reason, like circus music run amok—and is one of the album’s pleasingly surprising tracks as a result. Stefani’s willingness to completely change direction halfway through a song—repeatedly—remains intact, and perhaps the fact her songs are less...

Author: By Natalia I. Irizarry-cole, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEW MUSIC: Gwen Stefani, "The Sweet Escape" | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...definitely am very geeky in many of my qualities,” said Zackheim, who, when asked about the definition of “geek,” referenced its lesser-known definition from the Oxford English Dictionary: a circus performer...

Author: By Natalia I. Irizarry-cole, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Harvard 'Geeks' Woo Beauties | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...happens that, in the past two months, my TIME.com work has been awash in Englishness: not just in the Up films but in the humor of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the royal satire of the new film The Queen. I also participated in a South Bank Show about Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit who, although they are made of plasticine (and one, a dog, says nary a word), speak eloquently to the English traits of gamely soldiering on through life's trials, many of them self-inflicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Up With the Seven Up | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

...Simpson (and Fox) would have garnered from the deal are not half as outrageous as the fact that every day he walks free. The real outrage is the trial that declared him not guilty: the judge, a fool and incompetent whose love of publicity turned the trial into a circus; the defense lawyers, not one of whom could have doubted the man's guilt yet who cynically played on the jury's ignorance and latent racism to win a disgraceful verdict; the prosecutors, total incompetents who bungled a gimmie, then shamelessly cashed in afterwards; the media that turned the brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Should Let O.J. Speak | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...four years ago with Movin' Out, her dance interpretation of Billy Joel music, is attempting a similar feat with The Times They Are A-Changin', based on the songs of Bob Dylan. A more problematic show with a murky story line, it is set in a grungy-chic circus that is more distracting than illuminating. But there's no mistaking that it's a musical with a personal vision--not to mention one of the best sound tracks on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle For Broadway: Poppins vs. Dylan Plus Grey Gardens and Spring Awakening | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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