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Culture Club: Colour by Numbers (Virgin). Lead Singer Boy George may look like Peter Pan at a transvestite Mardi Gras, but this band purveys a straight and joyous brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: THE BEST OF 1983: Music | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

...escapist extravaganza outdazzling Mardi Gras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Halloween as an Adult Treat | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...that, it was a religious occasion for their pagan elders, and now it has been taken back by the grownups-masks, costumes, witches, jack-o'-lanterns and all. Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear. This year's celebration will be the most raucous ever, lasting four or five days in some places, a virtual Halloweek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Halloween as an Adult Treat | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...have sprung into being: behavioral medicine, to battle stress-related illness; psychoneuroimmunology, to explore the way emotional states affect the body's defenses. Major corporations have established elaborate stress-management programs to help harried executives cope. And around the country, but especially in mellow-minded California, says Psychiatrist Mardi Horowitz of the University of California at San Francisco, "everyone is massaging, jogging and hot-tubbing to reduce this cumulative stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress: Can We Cope? | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...lecture on grass-roots organizing of political action; a celebration of Black History Month including soul-food night and a lecture on the art of the Benin Kingdom; the beginning of a series of exhibits, lectures and films on abstract art, "The Shock of the New"; winter carnival with Mardi Gras as the theme; in addition to a variety of movies, concerts and recreational and varsity sports, including, yes, a women's ice hockey game with Harvard. There is much to do at Colby provided there is the awareness of surroundings and the initiative to take advantage of a veritable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Provincialism | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

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