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...living wage, or a vision, like 10 student Core classes taught by professors? Not going to happen. Attempt to represent the undergraduates as undergraduates, instead of service-seeking drones? Welcome to Loserville. Play to our sense of humor and try to help us enjoy college as college students? Hey clown-boy, pipe down and hand us the remote to our new cable...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Bringing Bureaucracy to Students: Council 2001 | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...trailer that he tortures people with - and then can talk about Shakespeare's language, about iambic pentameter. He's both those people." The question facing the $25 million man is this: Who exactly will he be in the coming decades? His image - the winking, wisecracking, pistol-packing hero-clown - is already showing signs of age. The '80s-style action movie he mastered is past its prime, and Gibson looks all of his 44 years, if not a bit more. Not long ago, during a late night of channel surfing, he says, "I snuck up on (1983's) "The Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Softer Side of Mel | 12/2/2000 | See Source »

...STAR OF THE SHOW is the self-proclaimed "Clown of Clowns," David Larible. Larible won the 1999 International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo Golden Clown Award, and in Barnum's Kaleidoscape, he has found the perfect venue to show off his estimable talents, which would otherwise be wasted in the chaos of a three-ring show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fears of a Clown | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...There is no ringmaster in Kaleidoscape. Instead Larible and his foil, the classic European whitefaced clown Pipo, act as introduction and interlude for the show's wide range of acts. Larible is perhaps at his best when interacting with the crowd, constantly pulling audience members into the show to take part in his world. Larible is an excellent improviser, and whether the shanghaied volunteer is willing or disagreeable, the result is almost always hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fears of a Clown | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...KALEIDOSCAPE offers a heaping spoonful of both the traditional and the new, all in an environment that allows the audience to become immersed in the whole circus experience and, most importantly, to have fun. And if it makes the world a safer place to be a clown, well, that's just icing on the cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fears of a Clown | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

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