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...uncertainty -- and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance." That is sobering counsel for would-be participants in the sexual game, but it applies to choreographers as well. Tharp's current troupe is mostly new to her work, and it is heartening to see them toss off her older pieces like Ocean's Motion and Deuce Coupe with a brio that often does not survive more routine revival efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twyla Tharp's Sexy New Twirls | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...like its predecessors in the cult entertainment world, Get a New Job, Joe Blunsten!'s campy spontaneity has attracted a devoted following. As the fourth episode, "Romantic Christmas Special," begins, directors Elijah F. Aron '92-'93 and Paul N. Gailiunas '92 toss candy into the 70 people that have arrived for the 10 p.m. show in the Adams House Private Dining Room. The crowd goes wild...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: No Justice for This Working Man! | 12/14/1991 | See Source »

...individual on campus is one of 6400, faced with a mass of choices--choices of friends, roommates, houses, courses and activities. Those decisions would be daunting in a homogeneous society. Toss in diversity, and they're that much harder to make...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll and Joanna M. Weiss, S | Title: Diversity at Harvard: A Struggle Beneath the Surface | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

Some artists don't seem to belong in the show at all, or only do so by force of custom. It's a toss-up whether you want to see George Segal's once white, now gray, plaster-cast figures in relation to mass culture; today they seem even more attached to solitude and individual grittiness than they did in the '60s, sculptural materializations of the urban mood of Hopper. You could make some kind of case for that excellent California painter Wayne Thiebaud as a Pop artist because he painted hot dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wallowing in The Mass Media Sea | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...might go beyond that. Because Dodgers general manager Fred Claire called "heads" in a coin flip last month, Los Angeles won the toss and the right to host a one-game playoff Monday night. That, too, will...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Atlanta, Los Angeles Go Down to the Wire | 10/4/1991 | See Source »

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