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...energy, alternative theater experience comes from the audience as opposed to from the production itself. Perhaps this is a product of a long and tiring run, or growing pains as what started as three friends ballooned into a nation-wide business, but Tubes relies upon the audience members to entertain themselves a bit too heavily. Opening packages of Twinkies with a saw, covering a man’s head with Cap’n Crunch and painting a canvas by slapping a paint-smeared human body into it make the performance seem too like a frat party with...
...Palestinian Mohammed al-Durrah on tape, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has found a new venue—the global media. The picture of the terrified boy crouching against his father amidst a spray of bullets made the covers of newspapers around the world. The world seemed ready to entertain the notion that the oppression of the Palestinians had reached an intolerable level. But meanwhile, the American press took steps that ensured that the truth about Palestine would remain hidden from the American people...
...Fearing similar fates for their animals, scores of bear owners in the New Delhi area are scrupulously avoiding the crowds they used to entertain. Raju and Sheru spend most of their days lying in a dusty, shaggy heap tied to a post outside their owner's home. Every so often, a child is sent out to pour water on them to help with the heat. "These bears are very expensive to keep and now, instead of earning for us, they have become a burden," complains Abdul, a bear trainer...
...said it. It's out there. I have made myself the willing target of a nation's hostility, a country full of purported fans of college basketball who entertain themselves by disparaging my team, who cringe at the sight of Duke blue. And it's not just University of North Carolina fans, for whom, at least, anti-Duke sentiment is a hallowed tradition. Instead, it's a whole lot of people who, for reasons that continue to escape me, find everything about Duke basketball to be deeply distasteful. And for a team that's never done anything but play solid...
...Many of the gadgets and gizmos that will help entertain us will be on display this week at the CeBIT trade exhibition in Hanover, Germany, which attracts more than 600,000 people each year...