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...dancing goes on past midnight, when Randy Wilson finally has to shoo people out. Many of the girls are still light-footed, merry; it's their dads who are fading, and you wonder who will be leaning on whom as they head out into the cool mountain night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pursuit of Teen Girl Purity | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...production, even if the grand finale—“Yiddish Rhapsody,” based on the well-known “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen—was disappointing. The song featured amusing lines such as “China Garden has only moo-shoo pork for me,” but the acting and singing skills of Jonathan K. Tam ’10 and Ilan J. Caplan ’10 drew the most laughter. Tam, in particular, stood out—not only because he was the sole Asian in a predominantly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One-Liners Translate in ‘Yiddish,’ But Plot Line Does Not | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...second day in the forest, a group of 21 bonobos, oblivious to the political silliness an ocean away, oblige the liberals by showing us their gentler side. A baby kisses its mother. A group of females shoo an unpopular male away with matriarchal authority. A bonobo couple, apparently enjoying a kind of ape honeymoon, share figs, nuts and shoots and hang out in the trees with moonfaced expressions before copulating twice high up in the canopy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unlikely Refuge for Hippie Apes | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...moon, so we were more than eager to get a look at it. Television cameramen jostled for position in window seats to capture images of the brown, frozen landscape as it came into view below. Reporters took out small digital cameras, even as flight attendants tried to shoo people back to their seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes Of Hope | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...window. Television cameramen and photographers jostled for position in window seats to capture images of the brown, frozen landscape as it came into view below. Reporters brought out their small digital cameras to try to get the same photos for their scrapbooks, even as flight attendants frantically tried to shoo everyone back to their seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ballad Of Kim Jong Il | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

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