Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Severe weather is the great equalizer," says Bob Potter, director of home video for National Geographic Television. Watching people getting manhandled by violent storms, moreover, adds a little excitement to our own humdrum battles with the elements. (Better bundle up--and take that umbrella!) Perhaps, too, it makes us a little more comfortable in our own good sense. Those crazy storm chasers may get some neat pictures, but at least we know enough to come in out of the rain...
...umbrella organization representing the various ethnic and minority groups at Harvard...
...United Ministry, the umbrella religious organization on campus, currently has the power to recognize individual religious groups at Harvard...
Overall, the performance was confusing, but nonetheless worthwhile and extremely interesting. Dance Umbrella, which commissioned the show, has labored hard for 15 years to bring such unconventional act to the Greater Boston area. While many members of the public may be frightened away from attending performances like this one simply because they have little or no knowledge of modern dance, they shouldn't be discouraged. Just because one has trouble understanding something does not mean that said thing is completely devoid of beauty. What the Paula Josa-Jones spectacular lacks in solid interpretation, it makes up for in visual delight...
...great star will endure to please his audience. They have something else: a bracing athletic grace. The fights are as exuberant and abstract as the dances in a Busby Berkeley musical. And Chan is a superb physical artist, whether leaping off cliffs or hanging from a bus by an umbrella handle. As novelist Donald E. Westlake put it, "Jackie Chan is Fred Astaire, and the world is Ginger Rogers...