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...LokerLand, Cambridge's answer to Foxwoods. He claims that having a full-service casino within walking distance would be a windfall for campus coffers, especially if Crimson Cash is good for currency and all debts can be term-billed home. Another friend even suggested that our illustrious deans could sing "Wannabe" for tips in the smoky lounge (perhaps in place of where the book swap now stands). "Meet me under the painting of Catherine Loker," students will say. "And bring your lucky dice...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Bring Your Lucky Dice | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...Broadway show, but one composed by a pop-culture channel surfer on uppers. Jackie is a sweet-toned lyric soprano; Ari, a bass-baritone, is a smarmy lounge lizard (one of his big arias is marked in the score, "Freely sung, a la Dean Martin"). The music they sing jumps joltingly from folk rock to Motown to big-band jazz, all kaleidoscopically orchestrated for a 19-piece pit band with two percussionists. And although the tone is mostly light and lively, an unexpectedly affecting streak of melancholy surfaces whenever Jackie sings of her lost life as First Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CROSS OVER, BEETHOVEN | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...careful not to leave a pail and a mop unattended during exhibition hours lest it attract a crowd of Minneapolitans struck by the angularity of the thing, the openness, the vocabulary of liquidity. Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing a shower curtain and wave a flashlight and say things. Minneapolitans lean forward and watch them, perspiring, afraid that some subtlety may escape them. St. Paulites look at each other and say, "Whose idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEET HOME, MINNESOTA | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...most late-20th century American Christians, observes Jeffrey Burton Russell, have a better grasp of heaven's cliches than of its allures. "It's this place where you've got wings, you stand on a cloud, and if the concept is more sophisticated, where you see God and you sing hymns. It's a boring place, or a silly myth, or something people invent in order to make themselves feel better, or all of the above." Had Russell spoken these words a decade ago, it would surely have been in something close to despair. His tone today, however, can only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOES HEAVEN EXIST? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

According to RCS Tour Manager Amy B. Stanley '99, 36 women will sing in four concerts...

Author: By Emily B. Wong, | Title: Spring Break Brings Welcome Respite | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

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