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...imperious King clown (Gordon White) leads his vigorous aides-de-camp (Christian Fitzharris and Jimmy Slonina) strutting through the crowd before the performance and, during it, dragging volunteer victims on stage for some not-so-innocent merriment. In one prize bit, White is seen fainting from exhaustion and Fitzharris leans over him to give him the breath of life; as the kiss gets more amatory, Slonina avidly cranks an invisible camera and cheap disco music fills the air - it's the first Cirque de Porno. There's also a cast member in a yellow shaggy-dog suit who trots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cirque du Soleil's Clowning Kooza | 4/25/2009 | See Source »

...newfangled dungarees and brimmed caps turned askew, and not so much as a single article of tweed! They scream along to their wild rock-and-roll music—all fans of those British, mop-headed Insects, or Beetles, or whatnot—and exhibit all manner of inappropriate merriment...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: No Kids Allowed | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Although Brown’s Spring Weekend filled the campus with excitement, the Harvard baseball team took no part in the merriment. The Crimson dropped both games in a critical Saturday twinbill against the Bears, vaulting the hosts out of a second-place tie with Harvard.Trailing Dartmouth by three games entering the weekend, the Crimson was looking to make a statement at the expense of its Ancient Eight rival, but Brown asserted itself as the stronger team, claiming victories, 3-1 and 8-5.“We just didn?...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Hitters Can’t Find Groove in Losses | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...these gangs put a lot of effort in because they make money from it," said Straw, who as Home Secretary established the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit to crack down on exactly such activities. "In a lot of cases, they do get people to cough up." To the merriment of his Westminster colleagues, none of Straw's constituents put hand into pocket to rescue their MP. (See a story about how one web browser warns users about potential phishing sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cabinet Minister Needs Cash: The Jack Straw Scam | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

When the ancient Assyrians felt the painful aftereffects of excess merriment, they consumed a mixture of ground birds' beaks and myrrh. European doctors in the Middle Ages recommended raw eel and bitter almonds. Mongolians ate pickled sheep's eyes, while China went with a more palatable dose of green tea. Germans still eat Katerfruhstuck, a postbinge breakfast that usually consists of herring, pickles and goulash. Russians don't eat anything at all; they jump in a sauna and sweat it all out, sometimes flagellating themselves with birch branches to aid blood flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hangovers | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

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