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...Blue Man Group to continue to connect to its audiences, therefore, it must keep up the generative energy which has rocketed it this far. This goal is the catalyst that keeps Wink, Goldman and Stanton moving forward after nearly seven years, writing more material, collecting more junk, and jetting weekly between Boston and New York to keep both shows running. In the words of Chris Wink: "The bottom line with all this stuff is what every youthful person wants--something to get excited about. We just want to be excited about something, to try to be alive. We just want...
...researching the role of a media-obsessed cable weathergirl for the film To Die For, so you decide to lie in a hotel bed for three days, eating room-service food and watching TV nonstop. And who's your bunkmate on this field trip into junk culture? Tom Cruise...
...African-American community from growing because dependent blacks think they need a helping hand every step of the way to maturity. If you have ever gone to a general store and have seen black welfare recipients--usually black mothers--buying food, you will notice that it is primarily junk food. There are few essential nutrients contained in their diets which most people learn are necessary once they reach adulthood. These members of the African-American community are still stuck in infancy and childhood and have not matured enough to the point of adolescence where they can be confident to accomplish...
...suffocating from generosity. Benefactors had given so many objects to the Denver Art Museum over the decades that it had to close off an entire floor of its seven-story building just to store the relics--everything from paintings, sculptures, furniture and jewelry to clocks, ceramics and borderline junk. At the same time that most of this largesse was pouring in, the museum's annual endowment for strategic art purchases was a miserly $40,000. It was famine amid fat. And so museum director Lewis Sharp came to a decision not just to cut the fat but to sell...
Many school administrators are completely rethinking the weight they have been giving to traditional lessons and standardized tests. Peter Relic, president of the National Association of Independent Schools, would like to junk the SAT completely. "Yes, it may cost a heck of a lot more money to assess someone's EQ rather than using a machine-scored test to measure IQ," he says. "But if we don't, then we're saying that a test score is more important to us than who a child is as a human being. That means an immense loss in terms of human potential...