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Walking into a strip club, the adrenaline starts pumping through the body in anticipation of vicarious thrills. But then, once in, I looked up at the semi-nude dancer, and it was no big deal. She was just dancing--doing...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Down and Out in the Zone | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

Around the corner at the Glass Slipper Lounge a plump, bleach-blond dancer clad in a g-string prances on the stage as half-a-dozen patrons look on. This is what they call "adult dancing." Maybe it would be erotic if she was 40 pounds lighter, 15 years younger and happy...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: The Combat Zone: Cleaning Up Its Act? | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...modern dancing is more your style, see the David Gorddon/Pick Up Company's post-modern performance Saturday at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. in Cambridge. The program includes a new piece commissioned by the Harvard Summer Dance Theater, and will include dancer Valda Setterfield. Performances tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 and $12. Telephone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

...International Festival held in Brockton this weekend features Spanish Paella, Portuguese delicacies and capucha from Cape Verde. The Middle Eastern belly dancer Talila will perform also, with the Krakowiak Polish dancers and the Portuguese Folkloric group. Admission is free. Call 508-580-7597 for details...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

Borrowed Time demands a sympathetic response instead of inviting one. Holleran and Hoffman, on the other hand, understand the first law of writing about personal misfortune: appalling facts, tersely put, speak for themselves. Holleran has the advantage of being a gifted novelist (Dancer from the Dance) with a keen, ironic intelligence. "Someday," he says, "writing about this plague may be read with pleasure, by people for whom it is a distant catastrophe, but I suspect the best writing will be nothing more, nor less, than a lament . . . The only other possible enduring thing would be a simple list of names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journals of The Plague Years | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

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