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...horror, atrocity and comedy. Angels and red horses glide across the night sky. Mallory's family life is played as a grotesque sitcom that ends when her awful father (Rodney Dangerfield) is beaten to death and her weak mother is set ablaze. When Mickey and Mallory visit an Indian shaman (Russell Means), the words demon and too much tv are superimposed on their torsos. Flashes of Hitler and Stalin, insects and rhinos, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Express (the film whose screenplay won Stone his first Oscar) explode on the window of a motel room while the two ( make love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Stone Crazy | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...Nobody cares about me. I'm just a lonely font-loving layout-graphics shaman who can never hope to gain a following...

Author: By Nancy E. Greene, | Title: Designing the World to Catch Your Eye | 9/24/1993 | See Source »

According to one student, Nuzum's roommates had the right idea. "The key to moving out," said Todd P. Shaman '94, a Kirkland resident, "is leaving before all your roommates...

Author: By Olivia F. Gentile, | Title: Students Scramble to Leave | 5/28/1993 | See Source »

Some students, too, thought moving was no big deal. As Shaman said, "In the realm of things, it's much less of a hassle than dealing with other things in the world...

Author: By Olivia F. Gentile, | Title: Students Scramble to Leave | 5/28/1993 | See Source »

...aspires to the condition of music, as Walter Pater wrote, then all movement and gesture surely aspire to the condition of dance. The infant in its crib, rhythmically waving arms and legs, is, in a sense, a baby Balanchine. A shaman of Nigeria's Yoruba tribe summoning ancestral spirits to the beat of throbbing drums and Mikhail Baryshnikov executing a triple tour en l'air are both paradigms of poetry in action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rituals And Rhythms | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

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