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Visions of mortality come just before the third break. The physically demanding "Rock Lobster" leaves two dancers down for more than a minute, while the rest pogo wildly, contributing to Palmer Dixon's growing, resemblance to a locker room...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn and Catherine L. Schmidt, S | Title: Twistin' the Day Away | 2/22/1983 | See Source »

...Kuff" plays hour 12, egging us on to the end and final peaceful oblivion. The dancing circle reestablishes itself and dancers pogo, spin, and flail about in a manner not usually seen at the usual dances around the College...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn and Catherine L. Schmidt, S | Title: Twistin' the Day Away | 2/22/1983 | See Source »

...Cubism is a fad with many facets. American frivolity in the fine tradition of hula hoops and skateboards. Sillier than a corporate executive on a pogo stick, it could lighten the national blue period. But perhaps because the Museum of Modern Art has found the cube aesthetically comparable to Mondrian and Picasso, the trend has assumed and unbecoming air of profundity...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: The Shape of Our Times | 2/10/1982 | See Source »

...which he was the only participant. He passes time offstage with his pet tarantula and his friend Michelle, who giggles about the day she and Darby discovered a corpse in their backyard. At night Darby wanders through rock halls as the more engaged members of the audience pogo to the music and slam into each other with the force of bumper cars. Darby doesn't dance much; he simply staggers forward, backward, attentive to some inner music, like the dying of his brain cells. Within the year, the rest of him will be dead, of overdose and ennui...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: LA. Dolce Vita | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...worry, this could add $10 million to the box office") and is accorded a soundstage funeral-a stained-glass pattern projected on a cyclorama, his wife's guru reading from such sacred works as his list of credits (Chicken at the Wheel, Love on a Pogo Stick) and reports of boffo grosses for his last work. The mourners, of course, go right on making deals and trying to steal one another's lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Biting the Hand of Hollywood | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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