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...first big mistake was failing to settle on a place and time. The front , curtain's stylized glimpse of Manhattan evokes the '40s-ish nostalgia of Guys and Dolls, while the main set, a dark framework strewn with irregular cutout boxes of vivid color, recalls the '60s -- and, more precisely, Simon's musical hit Sweet Charity. A carousel-like jungle gym in Day-Glo tones suggests the '70s, as do the male lead's fixations on meditation and macrobiotics. The sexual precocity of the female lead's 12-year-old daughter feels contemporary. Yet the sonorous music and often sentimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mishmash Of a Musical | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

Wilkins, who has taught at the Law School since 1986, says he hardly has a free minute to spend alone with the life-size cardboard cutout of Michael Jackson that inhabits his office...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Such Luck | 11/13/1992 | See Source »

...into a virtual Stealth Vice President. There are not even any pictures of him on the Bush-Quayle re- election poster, presumably out of fear that the Vice President's vapid visage will repel swing voters. Says a senior G.O.P. adviser: "You won't see Bush even with a cutout of Quayle." This strategist admits the image of Clinton and Gore working so closely in tandem "points up the weaknesses Quayle brings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Happy Together | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

Thursday evening, workers carried a cardboard cutout of Rudenstine down Brattle Street to the president's Harvard-owned house at 33 Elmwood St. They carried signs bearing photographs of Rudenstine and the questions "Where's Neil?" and "Where on Earth is Neil?" Other signs read, in blood-red letters, "Nightmare on Elmwood Street...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Union Leaders Say Rudenstine 'Skipped Town' | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...probably not to be heard on the radio anywhere short of the far ends of the FM dial. But it's worth searching out. If there's a college station in your area, they'll play it; any record store that doesn't feature a life-size color cutout of the Nelson twins will probably stock it. A couple of the musicians' names will be familiar to connoisseurs: Richard Thompson, Paul Brady. More -- and this is the beauty part -- will be new: Chris Whitley, Will T. Massey, Peter Himmelman, James McMurtry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Troubadours | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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