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"I never expected to play UMD when I first came to Harvard," Francisco said. "We've played at Minnesota before and that was fun, but Minneapolis just isn't home. I haven't played in the DECC [Duluth Entertainment Convention Center] since I was a kid."
It's a thin line, and Robert Smigel, the disheveled reigning king of TV comedy writers, knows both sides of it. As a writer on Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1993, Smigel, 40, created groundbreaking sketch comedy, including Da Super Fans and the legendary Trekkies sketch in which an...
Bob refused to fly; when he disappeared to Spain, as he often did, he went by ship. In 1964 he arrived at the G.O.P. Convention in San Francisco by train without his beloved wife Kit. "We don't feel good traveling on the same train together," he said. Recently, childless...
Gore stuffed his five minutes with words like he'd stuffed his hour at the convention closer in L.A.; the tradeoff was a nice lack of condescension. This might have been the new most important speech of his political career, and since the whole point was the attention span of...
Among the exceptional acts are the Kabanov, Russian aerial acrobats who perform flips and drops from a swaying platform. Breaking with the circus convention of aerial acts defying gravity, the Kabanov embrace it, turning somersaults as they fall from a high moving perch, always landing safely on the tent floor...