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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...despite these quibbles, Urinetown is consistently funny, not only in ways that elicit immediate belly laughs, but also more thoughtful delayed laughter, as well as a lasting grin of appreciation. The entire tone of the show is refreshingly irreverent. That’s a word that’s overused and misapplied quite a bit, but perhaps no term better describes the show’s delight in exploiting all things serious in a world in which serious appears altogether too prevalent...

Author: By Adam R. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With a Name Like Urinetown, It's Gotta Be Good | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

...room with a table, an iron passport stamper, floor mats, a lopsided bed and three murals he has painted of mountains and a Muslim saint's tomb. He starts eating from a rusty can and offers it around. I offer my bag of raisins. "Look," he says with a grin, "all we ever eat around here are raisins. Do you have anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanksgiving With the Taliban | 11/24/2001 | See Source »

...jerks his body back and forth with near-alarming abruptness, as if smacking his head between two invisible brick walls. All this is oddly charismatic. Bassist Tye Zamora and guitarist Terry Corso also provide some nice sight gags; Zamora’s overworked eyebrows and large-toothed triangular grin give him the look of a mischievous gnome, and Corso can go mighty quickly from looking Big and Dumb to spinning like a dervish around the little stage...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not-So-Smooth Criminals: Alien Ant Farm | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

...convertible but it was too cold. Bob, however, had no complaints about the gathering. Want to know the secret of a good tailgate?, he asked. Without waiting for an answer, the former football star reached inside his jacket and pull out a flask. Sterling silver, he replied with a grin...

Author: By M.h. Chen and Photos C.S.N. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Cult of the Tailgater | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

...slipped. Nevertheless, Chen assures me that in the old days skilled trackers rarely got hurt. And he cautions that Hersey added poetry to his tale as well as drama: the men rarely sang the stirring folk songs the author eulogizes in his book. "Mostly," says Chen with a broad grin, "we just grunted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tracking the Past Along the Three Gorges | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

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