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...understand it. Nothing Blue Man Group does makes much conventional sense. The troupe's 80-minute theater piece, called Tubes, is a potpourri of physical stunts, visual gags, art commentary, audience participation and all-out sensory assault. In the '60s it might have been called a happening; today the preferred term is performance art. Whatever, it is the most talked-about off-Broadway show of the season -- and the most bracingly original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking The Jell-O Mold | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...orthopedic surgeon told her she would either have to live with chronic back pain or undergo radical disk surgery, with no guarantee of success. Then she found a chiropractor who, she recalls, "did all kinds of wonderful things." In addition to spinal manipulation, the practitioner served up a potpourri of health-care advice on everything from diet to correct posture and toning up muscles in the stomach and lower back. Now, she says, "my back is almost perfect. My body feels aligned; it feels straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Method to Manipulation? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

Until this year, in fact, the potpourri of frosh-only courses didn't even make it into the official register. Everything about seminars was supposed to be different, wonderfully unique. This would have been great...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The Best Classes at Harvard... | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

...1960s, concern over Vietnam united students around a potpourri of causes, from civil rights to the environment. The alliance itself didn't last, but the underlying sense of duty--the sense that neutrality equals complicity-- endured for at least a while...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Sometimes You've Just Gotta Take a Stand | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL'S CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. This delightful potpourri of holiday song, dance and frivolity continues to charm children -- and their parents -- as engagingly as it has for the past 57 years. All the seasonal staples are there, from the Nutcracker's wooden soldiers and Santa's elves to the traditional show-closing Nativity scene in which, as usual, live camels, sheep and donkeys manage to upstage the Holy Family. In New York City, through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 24, 1990 | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

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